Hundred days

• The Hundred Days: the period between 20 March 1815, when Napoleon's arrival in Paris after his escape from Elba forced Louis XVIII to flee the capital, and 28 June 1815, when Louis was restored following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and subsequent abdication; the address of the prefect of Paris to Louis upon the king's second restoration began: "A hundred days, sire, have elapsed since that fatal moment when your majesty was forced to quit your capital in the midst of tears"