He now renounced all further efforts on the Pretender's behalf.'
By the same treaty France renounced its sphere of influence on the right bank of the Mekong.
Doubtless with the object of expanding the flourishing foreign trade of Samos, he entered into alliance with Amasis, king of Egypt, who, according to Herodotus, renounced his ally because he feared that the gods, in envy of Polycrates' excessive good fortune, would bring ruin upon him and his allies.
In 855 he became seriously ill, and despairing of recovery renounced the throne, divided his lands between his three sons, and on the 23rd of September entered the monastery of Prum, where he died six days later.
And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile.
