In our series timed for the bicentenary of the Russian victory in the 1812 war with Napoleon we continue to acquaint you with the people and the events of those days. Our story today is about Napoleon’s last period of rule known as the Hundred Days.
It is worth noting that upon arriving on the island of Elba in May 1814, Napoleon did not plan to return to France because he thought at the time that his political career was over. Instead he intended to start writing memoires on the history of his rule, and the first six months of sojourn on Elba really saw him grappling with the memoirs. Contemporaries said that Napoleon was humble and unperturbed back then.
His arrival on Elba on May 3, 1814 was preceded by his travelling across France’s southern departments, where the royalists demonstrated their disaffection with him and where he even risked his life. Elba population, in contrast, hailed him as their new sovereign.
The story will conclude when Krombach goes before the Paris assizes charged with the murder of Kalinka Bamberski at his home at Lindau, on Lake Constance, 
Medvedev arrived in the French capital by helicopter, landing on the vast esplanade in front of the Invalides museum, where Napoleon is buried. 
In a growing scandal, those left homeless by the disaster on the western coast said proper Atlantic defences could have saved 
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