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Brussels, May 5 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was the beginning of the decline of the emperor, whose figure was practically erased from the European continent before his name became a legend.On Wednesday, the city that saw him fall hosts an exhibition that commemorates his decline and subsequent rise as a myth on the same day as the 200th anniversary of his death.At the foot of the monument to the Battle of Waterloo, the centre of the memorial exhibits more than a hundred objects owned by the emperor and that span the last 6 years of his life.FOOTAGE OF THE MEMORIAL.SOUNDBITES OF ANTOINE CHARPAGNE, MANAGER OF THE CULTURAL MEMORIAL.
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