The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-19
HAPPIEST EVENT TO NAPOLEON WAS
 ARRIVAL IN PARIS

The supreme triumph and the happiest event of my career'-so Ma poleon, an exile on St. HeIena's bar ren rocks, described his arrival in Pa rts after his punishment to Elba. It was just 104 years ago today, on March IS, 1915, that the Corsican, at the head of a great army which had f1ocked to his standard, arrived in the vicinity of Paris and gazed with eager eyes upon the city where he had ruled as master.
 Louis XVIII, now sat upon the { throne and wore the crown, but the Bourbon had no inclination to dispute the sway of Napoleon. As the Elm peror approached the capital the King called a review of the garrison of Paris. Only a few of the royal guards answered the royal summons on the following day, and they were drawn off to Beauyais. On the night of the nineteenth of March the mon- arch with his household left. the Tui- leries and drove to Beauvais, where guarded by his little company of loy- al soldiers, he took post to Lisle and fled across the border of Flanders to Ghent.
 Napoleon, now master of all he surveyed, rested for a day at Fon> tainebleu, and on the twentieth pro- ceeded to Paris. It was in the even ing that he rode in triumph through the city he had conquered purely by the force of personality, without striking a blow. If there were any royalists left in the capital, they re- mained in the background, and the great masses of the people, hundreds of thousands in number, greeted the emperor with uproarious cheers.
 When the carriage bearing Na- poIeon reached the gates of the Tui- leries, so lately vacated by the Bour- bon king, the Emperor was hailed with deafening shouts of joy and, borne aIoft on the shoulders of his friends, was carried up the stairs and into the reception hall of the palace. 1 There he was greeted by the ladies of the imperial court and by a multi i tude of his admirers. There was lit l tie sleep for Napoleon that night His peaceful triumph was more pleas | ing to him than any of his victories won by the sword. and his happiness 1 was apparent to all.
 On the following day Napoleon set about the business of reorganiz- | ing the government. It was soon | people welcomed the man, they had | made plain to him that while the | little enthusiasm for the emperor, | and that republican principles must prevail His choice of men for his cabinet proved that he fully realized q that the empire belonged to the dead past and that a new regime must be inaugurated If success was to crown hIs efforts.
 1 Marshal Davoust was made minis ter of war, CouIaincourt minister ot foreign affairs. and Benjamin Con- stant, Carnot and Cambaceres com | prised the council of state. Through out France there was a return to lib eral principles, save in the south | where the royalists were still power ful and fostered several popular up ] risings.
 NapoIeon's coup d'etat aroused | consternation throughout the remain der of Europe. The allied prince. assembled in Vienna, engaged in al viding Europe up to suit their pleas ure and interests, immediately de clared war on Napoleon. and brand ed him an outlaw, to be hunted down like a wild beast. The troop of the allied powers had not beer dismissed, and 800,O0O armed ant
  trained men were at their commant to hurl against "the enemy of Flu rope"
 l Napoleon sent envoys to Austria but they were not received. He sen emissaries to rescue the Empress ant the King of Rome from Vienna, bu Marie Louise refused to return to he husband. He sought to conciliat' England by a decree abolishdng th' slave trade, but it had no effect. Rus sia, Prussia, Austria and Great Brit ain united their forces and entered into an agreement, similar to tha which bound the Allies during tn war just ended, stipulating that m nation should agree to peace unti Napoleon had been destroyed. Ant no peace was made until he was de 'astroyed, at Waterloo.