It began with the taking of the old and almost empty prison called the Bastille; and we always think of it as the beginning of the Revolution, though the real Revolution did not come till some time after.

And it ended when Wellington and Blucher met in 1815; and we always think of it as the end of Napoleon; though Napoleon had really fallen before.

And the popular imagery is right, as it generally is in such things: for the mob is an artist, though not a man of science.

The riot of the 14th of July did not specially deliver prisoners inside the Bastille, but it did deliver the prisoners outside.
Napoleon when he returned was indeed a _revenant_, that is, a ghost.

But Waterloo was all the more final in that it was a spectral resurrection and a second death.