Flowers, Swords and France

After receiving the look from the Marquis de Treville, Charles understood what he meant. After finishing his dinner, he followed his grandfather to his bedroom. .

"What happened? What's on the note? Who sent it?" As soon as he came in, he asked a few questions.

"Charles, don't worry, stay calm, it's nothing serious." The Marquis de Treville made a gesture, indicating that he should not be excited, and then he handed the note to Charles.

Charles took it gently, and then read it carefully under the candlelight.

There were only two lines of words on it, but when he saw it clearly, he was so shocked that his hands trembled.

"Mr. de Lamartine is going to initiate a decree to prohibit all former royal family members from returning to France."

This is the first line of words.

[Mr. de Lamartine refers to Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), a French writer and politician. After the establishment of the July Monarchy, he opposed the monarchy and finally became a republican figure. At that time, he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government and was one of the actual people in power in the Provisional Government. 】

It seems that Mr. de Lamartine is going to find a way to get the Provisional Government to pass a decree to prohibit any member of the former royal family - that is, the three families of Bourbon, Orleans and Bonaparte - from returning to France to prevent them from disrupting the country.

If the first line of words had shocked Charles, the next line of words made him even more shaken.

"He has now learned that Mr. Bonaparte is about to return to the country and is ready to send someone to stop him and expel Mr. Bonaparte directly from the French border again."

How did he know? What are they going to do? Charles smelled the breath before the storm from these two lines of words.

After reading the second line of words, all kinds of thoughts came to Charles' mind, almost making him unable to keep calm.

Fortunately, he finally kept his composure, gently put the note next to the candle and lit it, and then watched the leaping flames swaying in the ashtray.

"Is this from the Duke of Treville?" He had roughly guessed the general outline of the matter - it must be that the Duke of Treville discovered something and then secretly notified this side.

The old marquis nodded gently, confirming his view.

"What's important is not where it was sent from, but how we should deal with it if it really happened." He replied leisurely, "If it is true, then it is indeed a big trouble."

"It is indeed enough to give people a headache." Charles also agreed with his view.

"Humph, these are just small people who were pushed onto the stage by chance, but they want to be famous actors!" The Marquis of Treville sneered with sarcasm, and seemed to be quite angry.

He was also quite disdainful of De-Ler and De-Lamartine in his conversation.

It's no wonder that he reacted like this. The two people were able to rise to high positions, one became the head of the temporary government, and the other became the Minister of Foreign Affairs, not because of their own ability and prestige, but the result of struggles and compromises between various political factions. Their abilities also doomed them to not last long.

However, everyone knows how great the temptation of power is. Will politicians who are accidentally promoted to high positions be willing to accept the result of leaving in disgrace at that time?

No matter who it is, there is only one answer - definitely not.

Therefore, Lamartine's motive for "banning any former royal family member from returning to France" is very understandable.

If he really promulgates such a decree through a temporary government, then they can temporarily frustrate various political factions and take the opportunity to expand their influence.

Moreover, from the information conveyed by this note, both the grandfather and grandson can clearly see the dangerous political intentions.

According to the new republican constitution, France will hold a national election in April this year; and in early May, the new French Constituent Assembly will be elected, and around May 10, these newly elected members will reorganize the new government. In other words, more than a month later, a new round of political forces in French politics will begin.

Under this situation, the Bonaparte party members naturally planned to let their leader Louis Bonaparte return to the country as soon as possible and take charge of the operation in person. Louis Bonaparte himself would certainly not waste such a great opportunity. So he has decided to return to France as quickly as possible.

And in theory, there is no obstacle to this approach. After the February Revolution overthrew the dynasty, the July Dynasty's expulsion order against the Bonaparte family has now been revoked, and the Bonaparte family can return to the country.

And the wishful thinking of the interim government's Foreign Minister De Lamartine and others is also very obvious-I must want to prevent Louis Bonaparte and others from returning to France for at least this period of time, so that they cannot bring any obstacles to their election layout and other political plots, and then seek to make themselves the new long-term ruler of France through various other means.

Just two lines of words contain such a large amount of information. Politics is indeed a mysterious art!

When Charles thought of this, he suddenly realized. Then the grandfather and grandson looked at each other again and reached a consensus.

"It seems that we have to find a solution." Marquis de Treville said calmly.

Then, both of them began to use their brains to think about countermeasures.

At least now, the political interests of the Bonaparte family and the Treville family are closely linked. Charles hopes that he can usurp power smoothly and directly more than anyone else. Of course, he can't sit back and watch him be manipulated like this, affecting the interests of his own political party.

So, can these actions of the interim government be stopped?

Charles is constantly pushing his brain to try to find useful information from the gradually blurred French history of his previous life.

His efforts are not in vain.

Suddenly, as if a flash of inspiration flashed from his head, Charles remembered a record in the original history:

In March 1848, Louis-Bonaparte returned to Paris, France, but the interim government forcibly expelled him from the country at that time. He was caught off guard and had to return to Britain sadly.

However, under the efforts of the Bonapartists, he returned to France in April 1848, and together with other members of the Bonaparte family, he caught up with the election that began at the end of April, and was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly. Then he officially stepped onto the French political stage as an individual, and began his glorious journey from an ambitious man to an emperor.

In other words, even if the original history was followed, even if he was expelled from the country again by Lamartine and others, Louis-Bonaparte and his accomplices still had a way to force their way back to France, and appeared in public in a grand manner to seek public office.

The original text can be read in Liu # 9 @Book/Bar!

In other words, judging from the "old" history, the current Bonapartists have a way to solve this problem.

When he thought of this, Charles' spirit was revived. He didn't want to go through the original history again, because... if Charles and others had solved the problem directly when the crisis just started and let their boss return to France safely, then in the eyes of Louis Bonaparte, Charles must have made another great contribution, right?

- Because he didn't know that he would be able to come back safely in the "future" and catch up with this imminent election!

In other words - this is a political opportunity that looks troublesome, but in fact it is definitely a great hope of success. The risk he needs to take is not big (the original history has proved that the Bonapartists have this political energy to overcome this crisis, so there is no reason not to do it again under the current situation), but it can make him make another great contribution in front of Louis Bonaparte.

Why not?

When he thought of this, Charles' original excitement was replaced by excitement again.

Knowing some historical details of the future is indeed a great help to him, and he felt it again.

"What's wrong, Charles?" The old marquis felt his grandson's mood change and asked quickly, "Have you come up with any ideas?"

"You are right, grandpa, we don't need to be afraid of a group of poor people who only have one and a half months left." Charles replied softly, "Although I don't know what to do now, I think we can definitely defeat their conspiracy."

"It's good that you have this confidence, but sometimes we need some means in addition to confidence." Marquis Treville was a little dissatisfied with his words.

"Believe me, I will definitely be able to defeat them!" Charles' voice was full of confidence, "Mr. Bonaparte will definitely be able to return to France safely and seize power. Now there is nothing that can stop the seizure of this country, grandpa."

The old marquis looked at his grandson and was slowly infected by his excitement.

"Very good, very well said! My grandson must have this kind of heroic spirit! Then let's do it."

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"First, let's write a letter to tell Mr. Bonaparte about the latest crisis." After pondering for a moment, Charles said some countermeasures he had just thought of, "At the same time, we have to tell him that although the situation is somewhat critical, we can hold on to the last moment, solve these troubles, and never let them hinder our plan. You write this letter yourself, Grandpa? The more serious you exaggerate, the better, the more you can make him feel the crisis, then if we succeed, the more grateful we will be, even if we fail... he will not blame us too much."

"Very good, I will write it later, just according to your policy." The Marquis nodded and agreed with Charles's opinion, "Then what?"

"I will build momentum with others recently. If necessary, I can spend a lot of money to bribe the current members of the interim government and let them oppose Mr. Lamartine's opinion. Anyway, we are not short of money now."

Charles looked at the flickering candlelight and pondered slowly.

"Besides, I'm going to visit the Duke of Treville tomorrow... They must be anxious, and Mr. Lamartine's idea is not just for us."

"Very good." (To be continued.)