[98] 29 January 1814. Napoleon had been educated at the military school at Brienne.--T. [99] 10 February 1814.--T. [100] 11 February.--T. [101] 18 February.--T. [102] 1 March 1814.--B. [103] Under the command of Marshal Augereau, Duc de Castiglione.--B. [104] The Congress of Châtillon, between the four allied Powers and France, had opened on the 5th of February 1814. France was represented by the Duc de Vicence; Austria by Count von Stadion; Prussia by Baron von Humboldt; Russia by Count Razumowsky; England by Sir Charles Stuart, with Lord Cathcart and the Earl of Aberdeen.--T. [105] Field-Marshal Gebhart Lebrecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstadt (1743-1819), who played a prominent part in command of the Prussian forces in the Waterloo campaign.--T. [106] 7 March 1814.--T. [107] 27 February.--T. [108] 4 March.--T. [109] Napoleon drove a Russian corps out of Rheims on the 13th of March 1814.--T. [110] The Battle of Arcis-Sur-Aube lasted two days (20 and 21 March). It was the last battle which Napoleon delivered in person in this campaign. He had to abandon the field to the enemy; but the two days were none the less most glorious for the French soldiers and their leader. Napoleon's 20,000 men had resisted a mass which rose successively from 40,000 to 90,000.--B. [111] I have heard General Pozzo tell that it was he who persuaded the Emperor Alexander to march forward.--_Author's Note._ The resolution to march on Paris was taken on the 24th of March, at Sommepuis.--B. [112] Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, Maréchal Duc de Raguse (1774-1852), one of Napoleon's most distinguished commanders. Under the Restoration, he became a peer of France and Major-General of the Royal Guard, and he clung to the Elder Line after the usurpation of the Duc d'Orléans. Marmont was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Science in 1816.--T. [113] Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Maréchal Duc de Trévise (1768-1835), played a prominent part in the Republic and the Empire. He was created a peer of France under the First Restoration, but rallied to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and was deprived of his peerage in 1815, on refusing to try Marshal Ney. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1816 to 1819, when his peerage was restored to him; accepted the office of Minister for War under the Usurpation; and was killed, in July 1835, by Fieschi's infernal machine, while riding by the side of Louis-Philippe.--T. [114] He arrived at Fontainebleau in the night of the 30th of March. The Capitulation of Paris was signed at two o'clock on the morning of the 31st.--B. [115] Pope Pius VII., who had been released from his captivity at Fontainebleau early in the year.--T.