Napoleon signing his abdication at Fontainebleau
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a treaty signed on 11 April 1814 between Napoleon I and representatives of the Austrian Empire, Russia, and Prussia at Fontainbleau, France. On 1 April 1814, as the Coalition forces invaded France, Czar Alexander I of Russia released 150,000 French prisoners of war as a gesture of good will, and convinced the Conservative Senate to dethrone Napoleon on 2 April. On 3 April, Napoleon received news of his deposition, and he signed his abdication at the behest of his marshals. On 13 April 1814, he ratified the treaty signed by him and representatives of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, and he was allowed to keep his title of emperor and rule over the small island of Elba with a guard of 400 troops. Napoleon went into exile, only to return a year later during the "Hundred Days".