Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)

Napoleon signs his abdication at Fontainebleau, 11 April 1814, by François Bouchot and Gaetano Ferri (1843)

The Treaty of Fontainebleau was an agreement concluded in Fontainebleau, France, on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon and representatives of Austria, Russia and Prussia. The treaty was signed in Paris on 11 April by the plenipotentiaries of both sides and ratified by Napoleon on 13 April.[1] With this treaty, the allies ended Napoleon's rule as emperor of the French and sent him into exile on Elba.

  1. ^ Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire, J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia, 1855. p. 284