The Battle of Paris, also known as the Fall of Paris, was a military engagement during the French Civil War, contested from September 1-27, 1943, in which the European Alliance engaged the French Grand Army in and around the Imperial capital. The battle ended with a victory for the Alliance, which seized Le Centre on the 23rd and managed to capture the fleeing Emperor Edmond Bonaparte in a vicious firefight on the Champs Elysees in which nearly 700 men lost their lives, known as the Edmondian Sacrifice. With the city under its full control by the 27th, Sebastien Bonaparte travelled to the city from his base of operations in Berlin and greeted cheering crowds, and survived four separate assassination attempts in a ten-day span, constitutionally relieving Edmond of his duties as Emperor on O