Places, museums, monuments : 4
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Place, museum or monumentThe Route Napoléon
On 1 March 1815, on his return from Elba, Napoleon landed in Golfe-Juan with a small band of 1100 loyal soldiers. And from here he set out on the extraordinary adventure that was to lead to the return to power two and a half weeks later, 20 March, with his triumphal entry into the Tuileries […]
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Place, museum or monumentPlombières-les-Bains
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Place, museum or monumentCompiègne Forest
'The forest gave birth to hunting, and hunting – the passion of the kings of France – gave birth to the palace of Compiègne'. Such were the words of Philippe Marini, the senator/mayor of Compiègne, in describing the influence of this forest. The third largest French national forest after those near Orléans and Fontainebleau, Compiègne […]
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Place, museum or monument / IIe République – 2nd Empire/2nd Republic-2nd EmpireVichy
After Plombières, Vichy was the other great spa in fashion under the Second Empire. Already in 1799, Laetitia Bonaparte, in the company of her son, Louis, took the waters of this spa which was known since Gallo-Roman antiquity. During the First Empire, the “Parc des Sources” (Park of Springs) was layed out on the personal […]