Make France Great Again

Victor Hugo's self-mockery silenced all the literati present.

The whole meeting gradually fell into a dead silence from the original enthusiasm.

Victor Hugo, who was the instigator of all this, looked at the silent literati present and realized that he might screw up the salon that was formed with great difficulty. Redeem, why don't we face it with an optimistic attitude! Maybe the situation is not that bad!"

After all, Victor Hugo suddenly thought of something. He looked at Mathilde and changed the subject: "My dear princess, where is Prince Jerome?"

"Huh?" Mathilde, who came back to her senses, responded in confusion: "Father is still living in the Rhine Hotel!"

"I'm not talking about the old Prince Jerome, but your younger brother, Prince Jerome Bonaparte! You don't know it yet! His vote in Seine is already higher than mine!" Victor Hugo Said to the literati present.

After hearing Victor Hugo's revelation, the literati present looked at Mathilde at the same time, and George Sand's eyes were full of curiosity.

Mathilde, who changed the topic to herself, could only bite the bullet and said: "My brother is traveling in Rome! It may take some time before he returns to France!"

Victor Hugo shook his head and said, "Fortunately, His Excellency the Prince didn't come back, otherwise Paris wouldn't know what chaos it would be like!"

"Yes! Paris is now..." Mathilde also showed melancholy on her face, but she wished that Paris would be more chaotic.

"Again, Princess Mathilde! Is your brother interested in participating in this election? According to his votes, he is fully capable of participating in the election!" Victor Hugo then asked.

"It depends on his will!" Mathilde tried to do Tai Chi: "If he is willing to participate in the election, then let him participate. If he is not willing to participate, then we have nothing to do!"

"The current French political arena really needs to inject some vitality. If some people always control France, it will become a stagnant pool!" Victor Hugo openly hinted that Cavaignac's ruling and the actions of the National Assembly In order to have chilled the former Orléanist and now the republican, he hoped to attract another force to French politics.

"Matilde! If your younger brother wants to participate in the election, we can help you!" George Sand took Mathilde's hand and said intimately: "We still have some strength!"

"That's right! Let those city management masters go to hell!" Dumas shouted.

He was kicked out of the National Guard for being on the wrong side during the February Revolution, and he was also marginalized in the parliament. He was very unhappy with the National Assembly because of his resentment.

Immediately afterwards, Merimee and Saint-Beuve also joined the ranks of "condemnation".

Mathilde looked at these "friends" in the salon and expressed her thanks one by one.

"I've read "Eradication of Poverty" by Prince Louis Napoleon!" Victor Hugo changed the topic again and said, "Frankly speaking, that book explains what the current Republic should do, public and free education, industry distribution of..."

Victor Hugo talked endlessly about the content of "Elimination of Poverty". Everyone present could only quietly listen to Victor Hugo's speech alone because they had never read the content.

Gradually, they were attracted by the "big pie" in "Eradication of Poverty", and they actually had an impulse in their hearts that "maybe it's okay for Bonaparte to be in power".

Victor Hugo was like a Bonapartist partisan advocating the contents of "Eradication of Poverty". After the speech, Victor Hugo looked at Mathilde quietly and asked: "If the hot If Prince Roma is in power, can these be realized!"

"To tell you the truth, my younger brother is also my cousin's supporter!" Mathilde said immediately: "He once told me,

The republic must be generous! The Republic must implement the principle of redistribution. Even if we disdain the concept of socialism, we cannot make the poor poorer and the rich richer! Isn't this France the same as England! "

"If Prince Jerome is really willing to follow his ideas, of course I am willing to vote for him!" Victor Hugo added in a brisk tone: "However, all this will have to wait until we meet!"

"Of course!" Mathilde responded: "After my brother returns to Paris, I will let him visit you as soon as possible!"

Under Mathilde's guidance, a relaxing literary salon turns into a solo performance of Mathilde's "Dazzling Brother".

After the salon, everyone except George Sand expressed curiosity about Jerome Bonaparte.

Mathilde took advantage of the situation and accumulated a wave of prestige for her younger brother.

Time continued to move forward, and in a blink of an eye, June 29 came.

On this day, dark clouds shrouded the whole of Paris, lightning shuttled through the clouds, and a storm seemed to be about to ravage the whole of Paris.

East and South-East districts of Paris.

The Parisian workers who had endured for nearly a week finally could no longer bear the hunger.

The government has issued an ultimatum to them. If they do not obey the government's arrangement to leave before July 1, the government will use coercive means.

Everyone knows what the government says is coercive means, they are unwilling to leave Paris, they can only choose to resist.

Under the spontaneous organization of the workers, they gradually advanced to the city hall and built barricades based on the workers' residence.

With only a few weapons, they chose to revolt at this time because the artillery of the government army could not be used on rainy days, which further shortened the gap between them.

It’s just that they still underestimated the determination of the reactionary government. As a military dictator, Cavaignac had long waited for the workers’ uprising, 20 minutes after the workers announced their uprising and demanded the dissolution of the National Assembly.

Cavaignac came to the barracks lightly, and the six generals waited for Cavaignac's arrival.

"Generals, start to act! Kill this group of mobs completely! The Republic will never forget your contribution!" Cavaignac's murderous words cheered up all the generals present.

More than 50,000 troops quickly entered Paris and swept Paris with the cooperation of the National Guard.

The torrential rain followed, and the sudden torrential rain restricted the artillery of the regular army and gave the workers a chance to arm themselves.

Many armed workers took the opportunity to seize the weapons of the National Guard.

However, all of this had no effect on the overall situation. The regular army without artillery support still showed the ability to crush the uprising workers.

Barricades were cleared one by one, and workers, women and even children were killed by the beast army that entered Paris.

On the cloudy day of June 30, Cavaignac had gradually wiped out the rebel troops on the front line of the city hall, and the rebel troops retreated slowly.

On July 1, Cavaignac broke into the streets of the suburbs of Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, blasting down the barricades with cannons.

On July 2, the last strongholds of the workers fell to the suburbs of St. Anton and Temple.

So far, the 100,000 uprising workers in Paris were solved by Cavaignac's bloody massacre, and the rest were sent to other provinces under the pressure of the army.

[If you want to know more about the June Revolution, you can read the complete works of Marne. 】