History of Europe 1816-1830

THE battle of Waterloo had been fought. For the second time the Parisians had been compelled to see the victorious allies with­in their walls - for the second time peace had been dictated to them; and the man who had filled two decades with his military genius and his ambition, who, not content with the splendid crown of France, had stretched forth his insatiable hands after a continental empire, ...