Description:	Embarkation of the Duchess of Angoulême in Pauillac.
Commentary:	On the 1/3/1815 Napoleon comes back from his exile at island Elba. On the 20/3/1815 he arrived at Paris. The Duchess of Angoulême has to leave the country and on the 2/4/1815 she goes from Pauillac near Bordeaux via Battersea (England) to Gent (Belgium) by a ship, where waits Louis XVIII and her husband. See a detail of the painting.
Author/Year:	Antoine-Jean Gros / 1819
Location:	Musée des Beaux-Arts / Bordeaux

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