Chapter 8： Analysis of the situation in France

Louis Bonaparte, who heard that Mathilde was worried about his safety, was very excited. After the excitement, Louis Bonaparte realized that his performance seemed to be too much. After all, Mathilde was already married. She has become a person who has two parallel world lines that do not intersect, not to mention that now he is terminally ill and may face death at any time.

After calming down, Louis Bonaparte stammered and asked as if he had entered the sage mode: "Your sister, my cousin... How are you doing now?"

Jerome shook his head and sighed: "Since my sister divorced that Russian rich man, she has been wandering around all day! Although she pretended to be indifferent on the surface, I know that the failed marriage was right for you. She hits really hard!"

Jerome's voice was not very loud, but when it reached Louis Bonaparte's ear, it passed through his eardrum like a bell and hit Louis Bonaparte's brain. Louis Bonaparte's brain went blank. , muttering in a low voice, "It's all my fault! If it wasn't me..."

Mathilde and Louis Bonaparte were childhood cousins. The two loved each other and looked forward to the future. No one in the Bonaparte family believed that their future would become two familiar ones. stranger.

When Louis Bonaparte was 20 years old, Louis Bonaparte's mother, the former King of Holland, Queen Audance, and Jerome Bonaparte's father, Gerome the Elder, discussed the engagement of their two children. Mu agreed to the request of Queen Audence, who bought an apartment in Switzerland for her only remaining son, and also gave Louis Bonaparte 3 million francs in cash and bonds, which means that Louis Bonaparte Bonaparte received an annual annuity of 120,000 francs.

In France at that time, a small factory owner worked day and night for only about 20,000 francs a year, and the 120,000 annuity was enough for their young couple to support themselves in Switzerland.

It is a pity that the day did not go according to plan. Louis Bonaparte did not follow Audance's arrangement, but insisted on carrying out the second coup d'état, that is, the coup d'état in Strasbourg.

Louis Bonaparte was successfully put in prison. This time, the July Dynasty was not as easy to talk as the first time. Even if the celebrities in Paris were begging for Bonaparte, Prime Minister Sirte still insisted on killing Louis Bonaparte. Ba was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The sentence of life imprisonment made Jerome's sister Mathilde feel the gloom of life.

There is a saying that the house leaked and it rained overnight. After hearing that Louis Bonaparte was betrayed and sentenced to life imprisonment, old Jerome's creditors immediately thought that Ordance might not help old Jerome pay off foreign debts as a family member. , They came to collect debts one after another. In order to help her father pay off foreign debts, Mathilde could only marry a 26-year-old rich Russian. This marriage only lasted less than 5 years and was on the verge of breaking up. Mathilde returned from Moscow. Paris, Louis Bonaparte also escaped from prison.

"No..." Jerome spread his hands and sighed, feeling sad for the misfortune of his "sister" and cousin: "This is a tragedy in itself, and we can only blame the merciful God for letting the two truly love each other. People are tormented! Why fate is so incomprehensible as a ruthless female cousin! Why my father owes a huge amount of foreign debt!"

Louis Bonaparte remained silent, his eyelids drooping slightly. Did he have any resentment against Uncle Jerome (Old Jerome) in his heart, but every time he thought of his cousin and cousin's support for him, the resentment in his heart was washed away again. .

"Forget it! Let's not talk about these old sesame and rotten millet things!" Louis Bonaparte had already let go of everything, but on this special occasion today, Jerome brought back memories of his old feelings.

"Well! Stop talking!" Jerome decisively cut off the topic. Some things must be stopped when they should be enough.

"Jérôme, my brother!" Louis Bonaparte decided to get to the point, he said in a hoarse voice with affection: "After my death, would you like to take over the flag of the Patriarch of the Bonaparte family and continue to fight for it? Fight for the cause of the Bonaparte family!"

The words of Louis Bonaparte made Jerome's heart beat twice.

The banner of the Bonaparte family? What a revolutionary title!

Although the Bonaparte family now has only illusory titles and a bunch of illusory honors, these things can help Jerome get what he wants under certain circumstances.

In France, Bonaparte has not only represented a person and a family, but also a symbol.

Silver coins with Napoleon's head were circulated into the French countryside. French farmers may not necessarily know who Napoleon was and what he did, but they just need to find the person they are familiar with in the crowd. .

The nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, the defender of the peasants, the supporter of the division of fields, these are enough to set off a storm in France.

Jerome's wild thoughts made Louis Bonaparte inexplicably flustered. He didn't want to see the title of Patriarch Bonaparte fall on the heads of people other than Jerome Bonaparte, otherwise those people would accuse him. Not sure how he will be programmed after his death.

"My dear cousin!" Louis Bonaparte said eagerly, grabbing Jerome Bonaparte's wrist: "Although the Bonaparte family has fallen into the dust, I believe that one day the Bonaparte family has fallen. Will be back on the throne!"

"Yeah!" Jerome nodded without doubt. History has proven the influence of the surname Bonaparte in France.

Louis Bonaparte paused and said in a low voice, "My cousin, you must know the current situation in France better than I do!"

Jerome Bonaparte answered gloatingly: "The monarch was cast off the throne (the monarch was the orthodox name for Louis-Philippe, here is Jerome's nickname for Louis-Philippe), the Republic has no place in Paris. Surrounded by trousers, he hurriedly crawled out of the tomb again!

It's a pity that there is no second Robespierre, second Danton, second Mara in this crappy republic that has been ripened. They don't even have a second Fouche.

There is only one Lamartine who was still composing poetry and music before, an unintimidating mountain party, and a group of remnants standing in the ruins of the dynasty and bunnies returning to Paris from the countryside. How can the Republicans and this group of worms make good politics together! I watch this republic eat jujube pills! "