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This is the beautiful and ancient village.

Located in the south of France in the Aude Valley in Occitania, near the border with Spain:

After the abdication of the Emperor Napoleon and his subsequent exile in the summer of 1815, the Bourbon King Louis XVIII returned to the throne of France, but the new royal government did not have an easy time establishing legitimacy with the French population.

An example of this can be found in the letter of the royalist Louis Bourges to a judicial official with complaints about the situation in the town of Alet. In this letter, he says: “all these Napoleonic usurpers are behaving and acting as if Napoleon’s return to power is imminent.”

The level of support was so high in Bourges’ hometown that he called it an “intolerable situation” and requested that the official “please send us some newspapers carrying the news that this sort of bonnaparte (sic) is dead, so that the supporters of this usurper will lose hope.”

Despite Louis’ return, there were “many inhabitants of the countryside who were repeating every day that King Louis is not the rightful ruler of France.”

According to Sudhir Hazareesingh: “the authority of the State was powerless when confronted by the force of popular memory and collective imagination.”