Final answer:
Napoleon was exiled twice, first to Elba and then to St. Helena, where he eventually died. He briefly returned to France in 1815 before being defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. After his exile, the Bourbon monarchy returned to power in France, but their rule was marked by incompetence and hardships for the people.
Step-by-step explanation:
Napoleon's enemies invaded France in 1814, forced him to abdicate, and exiled him to Elba, a small island near his boyhood home of Corsica.
Napoleon escaped the Mediterranean island and regained power briefly in 1815 before being defeated at Waterloo and exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died six years later at the age of 51.
In March of 1815, bored and restless, Napoleon escaped and returned to France.
The anti-Napoleonic coalition had restored the Bourbons to the throne in the person of the unpopular Louis XVIII, younger brother of the executed Louis XVI, and when a French force sent to capture Napoleon instead defected to him, the coalition realized that they had not really won.
Napoleon managed to scrape together one more army, but was finally defeated by a coalition force of British and Prussian soldiers in June of 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon was imprisoned on the cold, miserable island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he finally died in 1821 after composing his memoirs.
After Napoleon's exile, the Bourbon monarchy returned to power in France in 1814. Well intentioned Louis XVIII proved incompetent in handling the hardships facing France.
The émigrés returned to France and reclaimed their privileges and power that they held under the old French order.
As their lands purchased from lower classes, distrust grew of the potential action of the nobility regaining their lands.
As well, the French economy suffered as a bad harvest led to increased food prices. Former soldiers had not adjusted to civilian life.
The woes of the middle and lower classes increased as Louis XVIII feebly attempted to make their lives better.