Join Hugh Macdonald-Buchanan as he traces the story of one of history’s most important events. The French Revolution burst on the scene at Versailles where Louis XVI had convened the Estates General in 1789, then spread to Paris and the rest of France. It also provoked a world war that lasted 23 years. Ironically a French King with an Austrian wife was removed with the guillotine, eventually to be replaced by an Emperor with an Austrian (second) wife. In the interval there were horrific scenes of violence during the “Terror”, a civil war in France, and international conflict that ravaged Europe. Napoleon imposed an Empire that stretched from the Atlantic to the Russian frontier, but the whole edifice eventually crumbled at the bloody Battle Of Waterloo in 1815.

The Rise & Fall Of Napoleon - A Seven Night Combined Holiday

Join Hugh Macdonald-Buchanan for both The French Revolution and The Battle of Waterloo, to create a seven night holiday which follows the complete trajectory of this dramatic period in European history, from the storming of the Bastille to the denouement at Waterloo.

Price £4,598 per person (single supp. £960) including a train from Paris to Brussels.