Route Napoléon

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

External links=

• Media related to Route Napoléon at Wikimedia Commons