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🇫🇷Statue of Napoleon at Lake Laffrey

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🇫🇷Statue of Napoleon at Lake Laffrey

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🇫🇷Statue of Napoleon at Lake Laffrey

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    April 19, 2023

    Laffrey became known as the place where Napoleon Bonaparte ordered a royal battalion Louis XVIII. met that had been dispatched to arrest him. After Napoléon had left his exile on Elba on March 1, 1815, he and his followers moved towards Paris. He met the royal troops on the afternoon of March 7 just before Laffrey. Napoleon opposed this with the words: "Soldiers, if there is anyone among you who wants to kill his emperor - here I am". The soldiers then lowered their weapons and shouted: "Long live the Emperor!"

    Since 1930, an equestrian statue of Napoleon on the prairie de la Rencontre (meadow of the

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      Location: Laffrey, Grenoble, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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