The
Hundred Days, sometimes known as the
Hundred Days of Napoleon or
Napoleon's Hundred Days, marked the period between
Napoleon's return from exile on the island of
Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King
Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). This period saw the
War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the
Waterloo Campaign, the
Neapolitan War as well as several other
minor campaigns. The phrase
les Cent Jours (the hundred days) was first used by the
prefect of Paris,
Gaspard, comte de Chabrol, in his speech welcoming the king back to Paris on 8 July.