2-688-007 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Abdication, Fontainebleau, April 6, 1814', (1896). Under the terms of The Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was stripped of his powers as ruler of the French Empire and exiled to the island of Elba. Typogravure after the painting by Étienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour. From Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IV, by William Milligan Sloane. [The Century Co., New York, 1896]