Hundred Days, name given to the period after the return of the deposed French emperor,
Napoleon I, from Elba. The Hundred Days are counted from Mar. 20, 1815, when Napoleon arrived in Paris, to June 28, 1815, when Louis XVIII was restored for the second time as king, following Napoleon's disastrous
Waterloo campaign.
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