User:Lord Cornwallis/Allied Occupation of France
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The Allied Occupation of France lasted from 1815 to 1818 following Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo during the Hundred Days campaign. A multinational force, led by Anglo-Prussian forces, crossed into France and took the capital Paris. Allied troops then occupied much of France, until the Treaty of Paris on 20 November 1815 established a more limited occupation centred in the north of the country. Allied forces supported the restored Bourbon monarchy, and the British Royal Navy seized the deposed emperor Napoleon and exiled him to the island of Saint Helena.
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The Duke of Wellington was appointed Commander of of all the Allied forces. He split his time between headquarters in Cambrai and Paris, where his presence was often required to lend support to the restored French regime in the face of continued Napoleonic and Jacobin threats. Wellington, nonetheless, attempted to keep Allied troops out of French domestic politics which featured a new constitutional monarchy.
The fashionable elite of several countries headed towards Paris, as they had in 1814 before Napoleon's escape from Elba. The song All the World's in Paris by British comedian Joseph Grimaldi caricatured the influx of fashionable dandies to the French capital.