The Allies entered Paris on the 31st March.
On the 1st April the Senate appointed a Provisional Government.
On the 2nd, a decree of the Senate declared Napoleon to have forfeited his throne.
A fortnight later we returned to Villers-Cotterets, and settled down again in our home.
What a host of events had happened during that fortnight! The face of Europe had been changed.
On the 4th, Napoleon abdicated in favour of his son.
On the 6th he made his plans for retiring south of the Loire.
On the 10th a Te Deum was chanted in the place Louis XV. by the Allies.
On the 11th Napoleon signed the decree of abdication.
On the 12th he attempted to poison himself.