Golfe-Juan belongs to the
commune of
Vallauris in the
Grasse arrondissement of the
Alpes-Maritimes department, which belongs in turn to the
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. The area is served by the
Golfe Juan-Vallauris railway station. On 1 March 1815,
Napoléon Bonaparte landed at Golfe-Juan with 607 Grenadiers of the Old Guard, 118 Polish Lancers, some 300 Corsicans, 50 Elite Gendarmes, 80 civilians, and 2 light artillery pieces, having escaped exile on the island of
Elba. His return to
Paris, commemorated by the
Route Napoléon, and the campaign that led to his ultimate defeat at the
Battle of Waterloo, are known as the "
Hundred Days". "Golfe Juan" is also the name of a pointillist painting done by
Paul Signac (1863–1935), a French
neo-impressionist, in 1896. ==References==