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TFME MEJL ©WNlSmiEOM
By Guglielmo Ferrero
1. THE H U HI? FL E D DSF VS
N the 26th of February, 1815, the
sun having barely set, Napoleon
left the island of Elba, the Lil
liputian kingdom in which the
European Powers had confined
the giant who had created and
governed so great an empire. While at Vi
enna the monarchs of the old world danced,
banqueted, entertained, and parceled out
people as if they were docile flocks of sheep,
Napoleon set out with a fleet of seven small
ships, 1100 men, and a treasure chest of three
million francs to reconquer France. His
forces were trifling, but they were not de
signed to do more than to serve as a body
guard. He intended to make himself mas
ter of his former empire without firing a
shot, without spilling a drop of blood—
simply by showing himself. The under
taking was one that might well seem daring
and almost mad even to the faithful Drouot
and the devoted Cambronne, both of whom
believed in the superhuman power of his
genius and had consented to accompany
him.
Who had ever seen an army lay down its
arms and a state dissolve itself at the mere
sight of a man—even a great man? Was
this an undertaking which a man, even
though a hero, might hope to accomplish
without the intervention of a veritable
miracle ?
The little fleet sailed slowly towards
France, for in those days the winds were
almost always light. More than once, the
Incostante, the ship in which Napoleon had
embarked, was sighted by French and
English men-of-war, which let it pass be
lieving it to be one of the usual merchant
men that plied the Mediterranean. At last,
on the 1st of March, a little after noon, the
expedition anchored in the Gulf of Jouan.
At four o’clock the following afternoon,
Napoleon with all his men camped in an
olive grove along the shore w'hile the cannon
and the treasure were unloaded; and
towards midnight, preceded by a small
advance guard under the command of
Cambronne, they set out in short columns
toward Cannes, whence it was intended to
go by way of Grasse directly to Grenoble.
Napoleon wanted to reach Paris by way of
Lyons; but he was disinclined to approach
Lyons across Provence which of all the
provinces of France was most loyal to the
Bourbons and the old regime. He therefore
decided to go by way of the Alps and to
strike for Lyons across Dauphine, whose
people were much more kindly disposed
toward the order of things created by the
Revolution. This made i* necessary to pro
ceed from Grasse toward the Grenoble road
at Digne, twenty-five leagues by steep mule-
paths across the mountains. At Grasse
Napoleon abandoned his cannon which in
any case would have been useless before so
much as a single hostile regiment; and
throughout the day of the second of March,
with his small bodyguard, he marched afoot
like the rest of his little company, over
wretched roads and through falling snow.
Time and again in crossing those terrible
rooks, the Emperor slipped and fell, until a
soldier felt justified in warning him to guard
against a sprain. For would not the last
hope of the empire have vanished if during
one of those days Napoleon had dislocated
a leg in the fastnesses of the Alps?
Toward eight o’clock on the evening of
the second, the little column reached
Seranon 1400 metres above the sea. They
had made fifty kilometres in twenty hours!
But they needed wings. After a short rest,
they resumed their march. By the evening
of the third of March, at a late hour, they
arrived at Barreme, having covered another
forty-six kilometres through the snow.
Here they spent the night. The next day,
the fourth of March, they reached Digne,
where Napoleon tarried a few hours at the
inn, Petit-Paris.
During these two days, the adventurous
company had encountered no obstacle to
bar their way, neither an armed force nor
civil authority nor a hostile people; but at
the same time, they had nowhere encoun
tered a reception that might encourage
them to go forward with resolute minds,
confident that at the end of their journey,
not death but victory awaited them. The
road was clear, but it crossed a desert of icy
indifference. The populace appeared cold,
reserved, diffident. Was the first surprise
blunted by the incredibility of the news?
Perhaps. For, little by little, as the ex
traordinary news flashed across France (it
reached Paris on the fifth of March), every
body everywhere received it as an unlikely
bit of invention. Such audacity could not
be possible! But (when the news was con
firmed) the first astonishment was followed
by very different reactions.
Those who were satisfied with the govern
ment of the Restoration went up in the air
with rage. They declared that Napoleon
had gone crazy; that before long he must
fall into the hands of the police: and that
it would then be necessary to shoot him like
a brigand. Those, on the contrary, whom
the Resurrection and the return of the
emigres—the nobility and the clergy—to
power, had angered, distressed, or injured,
were jubilant. For them, the great warrior
was returning, the saviour of the Revolu
tion, the defender of Franee against foreign
invasion! He was returning to pull down
the nobility and the clergy who had con
spired with Europe to ruin France, and who,
brought back into France by foreign bayo
nets, were aiming to destroy the great
achievements of 1789 and 1793. He was
returning, a second time to save the great
Revolution which had freed France from
absolutism, destroyed the might of the
nobility and the clergy, abolished the abuses
and fiscal burdens of the old aristocratic
monarchy, lifted up the lot and dignity of
the people, given to the middle classes and
to the peasantry so large a share of the lands
formerly held by the Church and the
nobility!
Among those whom the new’ FOLLY of
Napoleon enraged were, accordingly, the
emigres who had returned in 1814, the old
nobility, the clergy, the marshals, generals,
and prefects of Napoleon who had taken
the oath of allegiance to Louis XVIII and
had pledged themselves to serve him—in
fact, all the servants of the new regime. On
the other hand, there was rejoicing among
the many officials of Napoleon whom the
Restoration had dismissed with half pay,
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