Route Napoléon
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Gilded eagle marker of the Route Napoléon, at the southern entry to Gap, Hautes-Alpes
The Route Napoléon
Route Napoléon is the route taken by Napoléon in 1815 on his return from Elba. It is now a 325-kilometre section of the Route nationale 85.
The route begins at Golfe-Juan, where Napoleon disembarked 1 March 1815, beginning the Hundred Days that ended at Waterloo. The road was inaugurated in 1932; it leads from the French Riviera to the southern Pre-Alps. It is marked along the way by statues of the French Imperial Eagle.
Route
From south to north:
- Antibes
- Grasse
- Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey
- Castellane
- Digne
- Sisteron
- Gap
- Col Bayard (1,246 m)
- Corps
- La Mure
- Laffrey
- Grenoble
Gallery
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Route Napoleon, Prairie de la Rencontre, Laffrey, France
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Lake on the Col Bayard
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