Vichy France

Napoleon III Celebration in Vichy France
300 piece jigsaw puzzle

This was one of the hardest puzzles I've worked recently. On top of having 300 pieces, the pieces were all randomly rotated, so it took me a while. I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, not up for doing much of anything productive, so a jigsaw puzzle was just my speed.

These people must be having a real good time, you'll notice that they are all floating on air. The photo was taken at the annual Napoleon III celebration in Vichy, France. Napoleon I (Bonaparte) was the one who put an end to the French Revolution and then attempted to conquer Europe and got his butt kicked by the Brits at Waterloo. Napoleon III was his nephew and lived like 50 years later. He managed to get France moving in a positive direction, but then he got the war bug and ended up getting his butt kicked by the Prussians at Sedan.

Never knew there was an actual town named Vichy, I just knew it as the portion of France that the Nazis didn't bother to actual conquer, they just put it under control of a puppet government.