After leaving Elba, Napoleon camps in a wood near Grenoble, where a peasant leads him to a gameskeeper's cottage. Napoleon sends an orderly officer with the intention to warn Colonel Labédoyère and his grenadiers in the city, but the guards at the gate turn him back. The gamekeeper and his son volunteer instead, and the boy is hidden in a basket of cabbages carried into the city by a peasant. At the checkpoint, a guard stabs the basket with his bayonet, wounding the boy's arm, but he stays silent and delivers the message before fainting. The next day, Napoleon enters Grenoble in triumph and awards the boy the Legion of Honour.
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Alberto Capozzi
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Mario Voller-Buzzi
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Luigi Maggi Director
United States release June 15, 1910 · Produced in Italy · Original title Il corriere dell'imperatore
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Società Anonima Ambrosio
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Italy
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Original title
Il corriere dell'imperatore
Original language
Italian
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No dialogue
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United States · June 15, 1910
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