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Memorial · Vallauris

Colonne commémorative du débarquement de Napoléon

Where Napoleon came ashore from Elba on 1 March 1815

Colonne commémorative du débarquement de Napoléon
Photo: Michel.ragons / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Napoleon sailed from Elba on 26 February 1815 aboard the brig L'Inconstant with six other ships, and landed on 1 March at Golfe-Juan, then a small fishing village; twenty days later he was back at the Tuileries. The column marks the landing.

Colonne commémorative du débarquement de Napoléon is a memorial in Vallauris. The station Direction Vintimille is 200 m away (about 3 min on foot).

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