Editing Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (section)

===Exile of Napoleon===
Napoleon abdicated the throne on 11 April 1814 in [[Fontainebleau]].<ref>Durand, p. 143</ref> The [[Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)|Treaty of Fontainebleau]] exiled him to [[Elba]], allowed Marie Louise to retain her imperial rank and style and made her ruler of the duchies of [[Duchy of Parma|Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla]], with her son as heir.<ref>Article V, [[:s:Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)|Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)]]</ref> This arrangement was later revised at the [[Congress of Vienna]].<ref name="de Saint-Amand, p. x">de Saint-Amand, p. x</ref>

Marie Louise was strongly dissuaded from rejoining her husband by her advisors, who fed her accounts that Napoleon was distraught with grief over the death of Joséphine.<ref>Durand, p. 153</ref> On 16 April, her father arrived at Blois to meet her.<ref>de Saint-Amand, p. vi</ref> At the advice of Emperor Francis, Marie Louise departed Rambouillet with her son for Vienna on 23 April.<ref>de Saint-Amand, p. vii</ref> At Vienna, she stayed at [[Schönbrunn Palace|Schönbrunn]], where she received frequent visits from her sisters, but rarely from her father and stepmother.<ref>Durand, p. 164</ref> She met her grandmother, [[Maria Carolina of Austria|Maria Carolina]], who disapproved of her deserting her husband.<ref>Durand, p. 165</ref><ref>de Saint-Amand, p. i</ref> Distressed at being seen as a heartless wife and indifferent mother, she wrote on 9 August 1814: "I am in a very unhappy and critical position; I must be very prudent in my conduct. There are moments when that thought so distracts me that I think that the best thing I could do would be to die."<ref>de Saint-Amand, p. viii</ref>