FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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he was exiled to British-held island of Saint Helena
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he was executed by the National Assembly
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he died in the Battle of Waterloo
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he became emperor of France
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Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleon was subsequently exiled to the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa. Six years later, he died, most likely of stomach cancer, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was interred in the Hotel des Invalides.
Detailed explanation-2: -A few days after his humiliating rout at Waterloo, on June 22, 1815, Napoleon once again abdicated the throne of France. That October, he was exiled to the remote, British-held island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from stomach cancer.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the Bourbon Monarchy was restored in France. The brothers of the executed Louis XVI, namely Louis XVIII and Charles X, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government aiming to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime.
Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon had been exiled to St. Helena after he was defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Having escaped his previous exile from Elba, off the coast of Italy, the French emperor was a flight risk to his fellow European rulers who wanted rid of him.
Detailed explanation-5: -After Napoleon abdicated as emperor in March 1814, Louis XVIII, the brother of Louis XVI, was installed as king and France was granted a quite generous peace settlement, restored to its 1792 boundaries and not required to pay war indemnity.