The Bourbon Restoration - A Brief History

When napoleon decided he had a chance to make a comeback after laying low in elba for a year, it's not like there weren't plenty of ready for the little corporal to come lead them back to glory. After just ten months in paris, king louis the eighteenth was forced to scamper out the back door and head for the netherlands. There, everyone fell into backbiting, with the comte d'artois blaming the failure of the restoration on the fact that they had not sufficiently purged and punished the enemies of the crown. A hundred days later, the remobilized allies beat napoleon at waterloo. The emperor abdicated again