In 1814, after the Battle of Paris, the allied states of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia and Prussia negotiated the Treaty of Fontainebleu. The Treaty stipulated that Napoleon was to abdicate as Emperor of France, and was to be exiled to the island of Elba, the largest in the Tuscan archipelago. Though officially its own principality, with Napoleon as its head of state, the island was nevertheless a prison for Napoleon who at that time was regarded as "the sole obstacle to peace in Europe".
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