Canon de Montereau
THE CANNON OF MONTEREAU
During the campaign of France Napoleon ‘ s army defeats as well the Prussians in the valley of the river Marne as the Austrians-Russians in the valley of the Seine.
Napoleon is everywhere at the same time at the head of his soldiers, escaping hardly from Cossacks ‘ attacks.
On February 18th 1814 during the battle on the Montereau bridge, he can’t hold out against temptation practicing his former talent as an artilleryman.
He personally checks a gun of twelve.
To the soldiers around him he says : “ Come on, friends, don’t worry, the bullet which will kill me is not yet melted.”