On Tuesday 21 October, as part of a series of events to celebrate the bicentenary of the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris, Thierry Lentz, Pierre Branda and Peter Hicks (amongst many other historians, British and French) participated in an historical colloque on ‘Napoleon and Wellington in War and Peace'.
The talks focused on the European situation in 1814, that year of hope as 300 delegations descended on Vienna for the Congress, before the 100 Days and all that followed. As the British Embassy noted: “this was an occassion that summed up what the house has done so well for the last 200 years: bringing British and French people together in a spirit of enquiry and debate.”