#first abdication

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Napoleon's departure for the Island of Elba. From pinterest and it's posted in other places.

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Napoleon, on the way to the ship to Elba, randomly encountered Marshal Augereau. They had an argument where each accused the other of fucking up and/or being a traitor. I think Augereau still tried to return to Naps during the 100 days but Naps said forget it.

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Enemy standards that were on display at Les Invalides being burned at the order of Marshal Sérurier so the enemy can’t retrieve them when they invade Paris.

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An awkward encounter

Napoleon is on his way to Frejus to sail for Elba.

 Near Valence those riding ahead had an unexpected encounter. They met Marshal Augereau, the traitor of Lyons, riding in the opposite direction and warned him that the Emperor was within hail. Augereau took no steps to avoid an encounter and when the carriage stopped and Napoleon descended he met Imperial affability with churlishness. The two men walked apart and Napoleon, perhaps mischievously, asked, "Where are you going? To Court?" Augereau replied gruffly that he was on his way to Lyons and then the exchanges became acrimonious, Napoleon saying that the marshal had behaved badly during the final campaign, Augereau retorting that Napoleon owed his present plight to his own insatiable ambition. When Napoleon returned to his carriage the marshal did not uncover but remained glowering, his hands clasped behind his back. To the Emperor it was a foretaste of the kind of reception he was to receive on the road ahead. Augereau expressed himself forcibly to Colonel Campbell. "He should have marched up to a battery and died in action!" he said. Curious advice from a man who had said to Macdonald on the banks of the Elster, "Do you think I am such a fool as to die for a German suburb?"

— Imperial sunset : the fall of Napoleon, 1813-14 by R.F. Delderfield

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Comte de Waldburg-Truchsess, from Napoleon in His Time by Jean Savant.