Make France Great Again

Since Princess Mathilde ordered the Bonapartists to stop all activities in the near future at the mansion on Coussel Street, all the Bonapartists in Paris have stopped their actions. They are like a poisonous snake lurking in the dark waiting for the two Two giants [the proletariat and the bourgeoisie] will win or lose.

After the two giants decide the winner, the Bonaparte faction will dispatch again to seize the fruits of the victor's side. At that time, a weak Paris will not be able to stop the Bonaparte faction's victory.

During the lurking period of the Bonapartist faction, Princess Mathilde, as the temporary leader of the Bonapartist faction, was also not idle. In the guise of writing literature, we invited Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Balzac, Dumas, Merimee, Ms. George Sand and other influential and prestigious writers, and heard more from their mouths The news about Cavaignac, by the way, helped her younger brother Jérôme Bonaparte establish a good image in the literary world.

Due to the good image that the Bonapartists have established for themselves in the recent period and the beauty of Princess Mathilde, the Paris literati who were invited did not refuse Princess Mathilde's invitation. They were invited to participate in Princess Mathilde's The literary salon was held in St. Gratien on the shores of Lake Enghien, which was the second residence of Princess Mathilde in Paris, and it was also a common place for her to hold salons.

At 7:00 pm on June 27, the sun was setting, and the deep sky was dotted with stars all over the sky.

Under the guidance of the stars and moonlight, a dark carriage slowly arrived at Mathilde's mansion and stopped.

Pushing open the car door, a lady wearing a white court dress and holding a fan made of ivory got out of the car.

When she walked to the door of the mansion, the door of the mansion opened slowly, and Princess Mathilde, who was also dressed in a blue dress and a string of pearls around her neck, appeared in front of the lady.

The lady looked at Princess Mathilde in amazement, and then asked with a smile, "I'm not late!"

"Ms. George Sand, you are the first to come!" Princess Mathilde warmly took George Sand's arm and led George Sand into the door.

The two walked and chatted like a pair of good sisters who hadn't seen each other for a long time. The originally quiet mansion suddenly became lively. If you listen carefully, you can hear bursts of laughter coming from the second floor outside the mansion.

Time passed in a hurry, and it was already the agreed 8 o'clock in a blink of an eye.

During this hour, Sainte-Beuve, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas and others arrived at the mansion one by one, the only one absent was Victor Hugo.

Seeing that Victor Hugo had exceeded the agreed deadline, Merimee, Hugo's "friend", decided to stand up and half-jokingly and half-seriously said: "Okay! Guys, we can start! Only God knows, Rain How long does it take for that procrastinating guy to come! Maybe he is reading his masterpiece at some lady's mansion right now!"

Everyone in the salon smiled, and they turned their attention to Mathilde, the organizer of the salon.

At this moment, Mathilde, who was sitting with George Sand, glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, then stood up and nodded.

The literary salon has officially begun.

Saint-Beuve first opened the opening with a sharp comment on the recent news that appeared in Paris newspapers, which attracted everyone present to participate, even Mathilde couldn't help participating.

Although she is the organizer of this salon, her literary level and attainments are obviously far inferior to those of the literati present, so that some inappropriate jokes were made during the review process.

But everyone present knew Mathilde's level, and they didn't make things difficult for Mathilde.

Even Sainte-Beuve, who is known as the "venomous snake" in the critic circle in Paris, smiled slightly. The small mistakes of beautiful ladies will always be forgiven by people.

In the salon, Saint-Beuve made a lot of complaints about the number of words in Balzac, calling it "I can't wait to put a punctuation mark on every word." After Zac "got into the money's eye", he praised Balzac again.

[PS: Some well-known literati in Paris charge by line. 】

The whole of France, and even the whole of Europe, did not think of Balzac's human-shaped typewriter. It can be said that the newspaper office really loves and hates Balzac.

What I love is his talent, and what I hate is his style of writing a new line after a few sentences.

The atmosphere of the salon is getting more and more climax with the passage of time.

Just when the atmosphere was about to reach its climax, the servant in charge of guarding the gate notified Princess Mathilde of the arrival of "Victor Hugo".

"Gentlemen and ladies, our protagonist is coming!" Mathilde said lightly with her hands.

Everyone turned their eyes to the door of the living room. Victor Hugo opened the door and walked in slowly.

The bad friend Mei Limei applauded first, and the rest of the people also booed and applauded together.

Victor Hugo, whose face was full of exhaustion, heard continuous applause before he had time to apologize. He looked at everyone present in doubt.

"My protagonist is here!" Merimee said to Victor Hugo in a funny tone.

"Mérimée, you..." Victor Hugo looked helplessly at the babbling old friend in front of him, and he walked slowly to Balzac and sat down.

"Hugo, you look very tired! What happened?" Balzac looked at Hugo beside him and asked curiously.

"Alas!" Victor Hugo sighed. He first apologized for not being able to keep the time, and at the same time explained his reasons to everyone.

It turns out that since the National Assembly suspended the ruling committee and appointed Cavaignac as the dictator, in order to prevent the Paris soldiers and workers from overreacting, Lamartine took his romantic friend Victor Hugo to the suburbs of Paris to try to Convince those workers to lay down their arms.

Fighting the government with their crude weapons is unlikely to succeed.

"Did you succeed?" Mathilde asked.

"No... Those workers obviously don't listen to us. He regards us as lackeys of the government! Lamartine and I were kicked out!" Victor Hugo shook his head and said disappointedly.

"God! It seems that a massacre is inevitable?" George Sand covered his slightly parted lips with a fan.

"I'm afraid so! We may be lucky enough to witness a massacre! Half the republic killing the other half!"