Cantal. Large poster of the Hundred Days,... - Lot 85 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Cantal. Large poster of the Hundred Days, printed in Aurillac, by B.-M. Pellisson. 90 x 60 cm. March 20, 1815. "Département du Cantal - Proclamations and imperial decrees", taken by Napoleon at Golfe-Juan (March 1, 1815) and Lyon (March 13) on his return from Elba Island. "His Majesty the Emperor arrived this evening at 8:00 in his palace in the Tuileries. He entered Paris at the head of the same troops []. The brave battalion of the Old Guard, which accompanied the Emperor from Elba Island, will arrive here tomorrow, and will have made the journey from Golfe-Juan to Paris in 21 days. The two proclamations "to the Army" and "to the People" follow: "Soldiers! We have not been defeated. Two men from our ranks betrayed our laurels, their country, their prince, their benefactor []". And 4 decrees taken in Lyon on the dissolution of the nobility and the reinstatement of the laws of the constituent assembly, the dissolution of the Chamber of Peers, etc....