My current project relates to the surrender of Napoleon. I am gathering material, mostly eyewitness accounts, on the period between Napoleon’s return to Paris in June 1815 and his surrender to the British off Rochefort three weeks later.
It isn’t discussed much in polite society, but had he not surrendered to the British in July 1815 the British were quite prepared to sink the vessel he was on and to kill him.
It is only slightly related, but here is an account of the man who beat Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, by a French official, the Count Molé. It is not what you might expect.