This picture is taken from a snackbar along the "Route Napoléon". If you want to look it up on the map, it's road N85. Why it is called the "Route Napoléon"? I found the following text on http://www.route-napoleon.com: "Napoleon Bonaparte, who had been exiled on the Island of Elba in 1814, decided to return to the forefront of French political life. A year later, on 1st March, he disembarked at Golfe Juan and set off, accompanied by a handful of his followers, to recover his title. He chose to reach Lyons over the mountains, so as to avoid meeting resistance in royalist towns. So the Route Napoléon is the stretch linking Golfe Juan to Grenoble, via Grasse, Digne and Gap. He managed to cover 324 km. in 6 days, and on 20 March he reached the Tuileries, as planned." I couldn't have put it better myself. J

Picture taken: 18th April 2003, Route Napoléon