Illustration - The Alps in Summer
FRANCE. ISERE (38) NAPOLEON ROAD, VILLAGE OF LAFFREY. IT WAS IN LAFFREY THAT TOOK PLACE, ON MARCH 7, 1815, THE MEETING OF NAPOLEON, RETURNING FROM THE ISLAND OF ELBA AND THE ROYALIST ARMY. THIS SITE WAS LATER NAMED PRAIRIE DE LA RENCONTRE, AND A STATUE OF NAPOLEON, ON HORSEBACK, OVERLOOKING THE LAKE, COMMEMORATES THIS EVENT. WHEN THE TWO ARMIES MET, NAPOLEON DISMOUNTED FROM HIS HORSE, ADVANCED, CHEST OUT, AND SAID TO THEM: SOLDIERS! I AM YOUR EMPEROR. DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE ME? IF THERE IS ONE AMONG YOU WHO WANTS TO KILL HIS GENERAL, HERE I AM! A HUGE CRY RANG OUT "LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR!" Photo by Jean-Pierre Dorsain/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM
- Product Code
- ILEA004497054
- Registered date
- 2017/7/14 00:00:00
- Credit
- Abaca Press / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Dordain Jean-Pierre/Only France/ABACA
- Media size
- 4861 × 3241 pixel
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- 3.05(MB)*
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