The Napoleon Stone, Plymouth UK ©Compton Avenue Píctures

Napoleon Commemorative Stone is two pieces of Dartmoor Granite and a piece of Volcanic rock from St Helena. It commemorates 200 years of peace between Britain and France and was unveiled in 2015. Sponsored by Monsieur Alain Sibril then French Consul, Plymouth City Council the French Navy and Brittany Ferries, the stone is located overlooking Plymouth Sound where Napoleon was detained on HMS Bellerophon for 9 days in 1815. It bears the inscription ‘May our hearts be open to friendship and our arms reach across the sea to unite our two nations’ - written by Mrs Melisande Fitzsimons, a French poet living in Plymouth.
Website: www.destination-napoleon.eu
Credit: ©Compton Avenue Píctures
A big thank you to Alain Sibiril