An episode of the fateful 100 days between the times Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba and was sent to St. Helena. The man of destiny is seen arriving in France at the head of 600 Grenadiers; a message which the ordnance officer failed to get through to Colonel Lahedoyene at Grenoble is carried by a peasant boy, concealed in a donkey's pannier; the sentry at the gate playfully sticks his bayonet in the basket, and wounds the boy, who, however, succeeds in his mission, and is decorated by the emperor.