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The Charter of 1815, signed on 22 April 1815, was the French constitution prepared by Benjamin Constant at the request of Napoleon I when he returned from exile on Elba.
A constitutional referendum on the Charter of 1815 of the First French Empire, with Napoleon I restored to power in place of Louis XVIII, was held on 22 April 1815.Like in previous French referendums, the officially announced result was nearly unanimous.
20 March - Napoleon arrives back in Paris, ending the First Restoration of Louis XVIII of France. 22 April - Constitutional Referendum held. 22 April - Charter of 1815 signed bringing in a new French constitution. 1 May - Explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville marries Adèle Dumont D'Urville (née Pepin) in Toulon. [6]
The Hundred Days (French: les Cent-Jours IPA: [le sɑ̃ ʒuʁ]), [4] also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition (French: Guerre de la Septième Coalition), marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).
A charter is a document defining the responsibilities of actors of the French state (the king and the two chambers). In his Souvenirs de 1814, Louis-Philippe claimed that Louis XVIII did not conceive the charter as a new fundamental law of the French Kingdom – for those were still in place and could not be changed – but rather as a document stating the replacement of the Estates General ...
Napoleon left from exile on Elba and landed on the mainland near Cannes on 1 March 1815. [1] He traveled north, with supporters flocking to his cause. [2] On 16 March 1815 Louis XVIII addressed a meeting of both chambers, appealing to them to defend the constitutional charter. [3] On the night of 19–20 March the king left his palace for Ghent ...
Charter of 1814 of 4 June 1814 established the Bourbon Restoration. Charter of 1815 of 22 April 1815 (Hundred Days). Charter of 1830 of 14 August 1830 established the July Monarchy. Mid-19th century: [3] Constitution of 1848 adopted 4 November 1848, established the Second Republic. Constitution of 1852 adopted 14 January 1852, established the ...
In pink, territories left to France in 1814 but removed after the Treaty of Paris of 1815. A map of the Eastern boundary of France to illustrate the Second Peace of Paris 20th Nov. 1815 Southeast frontier of France after the Treaty of Paris, 1815. The 1815 peace treaties were drawn up entirely in French, the lingua franca of