Ever since he received the news from France from Eugène Rouet, Jérôme Bonaparte had been ready to meet with Tocqueville's envoy at any time.
In order to understand the "enemy", Jerome Bonaparte went to the bookstore and bought a book "On American Democracy" by Tocqueville.
Although Tocqueville's book made Jérôme Bonaparte feel uncomfortable, and even gave Jérôme Bonaparte the idea that Tocqueville was an "Anren", Jérôme
. Bonaparte still endured and finished reading Tocqueville’s books.
[An Ren: At the end of the 20th century, a proponent of Enron’s thought during the period when neoliberalism was prevalent in the United States. This thought believed that the government should relax its supervision of enterprises and even eliminate the need for a completely capitalist social system under the leadership of the government. Reagan was
A well-known supporter of Enronism, during his neoliberal reform period, he abolished the US government's power to regulate and intervene in enterprises after Roosevelt.]
"Your Highness, I have inquired about the hotel where Tocqueville is staying!" Captain Letty, who was in charge of "intelligence" work, reported to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Huh?" Jérôme Bonaparte put down the book in his hand and raised his head and asked, "How did you find it?"
"While I was patrolling (wandering) outside, I happened to meet a young man who asked me for information about you!" Letty said to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Did you tell him?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked in return.
"Of course not!" Captain Letty immediately claimed the credit: "However, I followed the young man to a hotel! After a "friendly" exchange with the hotel owner, the hotel owner told me the name of the passenger!"
"Huh? Not bad!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction, stood up, patted Letty on the shoulder and encouraged: "The empire needs talents like you!"
"It is my duty to be loyal to the empire!" Letty humbly responded to Jerome Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte encouraged Leti again and then gave Leti a vague "expulsion order".
Fleury was called over by Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Mr. Fleury, I now have an important task for you!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Fleury.
"Your will is my direction! Who are you going to tear to pieces?" Fleury still retained the iron-blooded style of a soldier when he responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Jerome Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction and handed over the task of inviting Tocqueville to Fleury.
Fleury, who was finally entrusted with the important task, excitedly saluted Jérôme Bonaparte and left after promising to complete the mission.
"Your Highness, how can you entrust such an important task to him!"
Tailan appeared holding a washbasin made of brass.
Jérôme Bonaparte took out a steaming towel from the washbasin and wiped his cheek: "A rough man can make them relax their vigilance against me. Our enemies are not only Mr. Thiers who wants to use us as a puppet, the Republic
The same goes for pie..."
Tai Lan nodded in understanding.
Half an hour later, Fleury returned and informed Jérôme Bonaparte that Tocqueville would be visiting the next day.
…
May 14, 1848 at 10 a.m.
A brown carriage stopped in front of Louis' mansion, and Tocqueville and Lalay got out of the carriage.
Jérôme Bonaparte and members of the Bonaparte party personally walked down the steps to greet Tocqueville.
"welcome!"
Jérôme Bonaparte and Tocqueville held hands together.
The two entered Louis' mansion side by side.
"Please!" Jérôme Bonaparte stretched out his hand and made an invitation gesture. Tocqueville sat on the sofa, and his secretary Lale stood on Tocqueville's right side, his eyes peeking at Jérôme from time to time.
Bonaparte.
Pesini, as Jerome Bonaparte's secretary, also stood in Jerome Bonaparte's room.
After all the main characters are seated, the "confrontation" officially begins.
"On behalf of the French Republic, I express regret for the death of Prince Louis Napoleon!" Tocqueville showed a regretful expression and pointed his right hand at Lale.
Lale opened the package with understanding and handed a piece of paper to Tocqueville.
"This is a private letter from Lamartine's administration!" Tocqueville handed the letter to Jérôme Bonaparte.
After receiving the letter, Jérôme Bonaparte scanned Lamartine's private letter line by line. The letter was probably filled with regrets about the death of Louis Napoleon.
"My cousin has always been a republican during his lifetime, so he prefers to be called citizen Louis Napoleon instead of the prince in the old days! The name prince has long since become history! Now, you and I are both citizens!"
Jérôme Bonaparte "reminded" Tocqueville.
Of course Tocqueville would not believe that Louis Napoleon, who twice wanted to restore the empire, was a republican, but how many true republicans are there in today's French politics?
"Okay! Citizen Jérôme Bonaparte!" Tocqueville said as he walked down the slope.
"I hope that my cousin can return to France as a republican and a rebel, not as a war criminal! The crimes of the Bourbon era should be abolished!" Jérôme Bonaparte
Put forward conditions to Tocqueville.
"This issue left over from history, Lamartine's administration agreed to abolish it!" Tocqueville decisively agreed to Jérôme Bonaparte's conditions.
Jérôme Bonaparte looked at Tocqueville suspiciously. He did not believe that there were no conditions attached to French politics.
Just as Jérôme Bonaparte had predicted, Tocqueville also put forward conditions.
Tocqueville said carefully: "Lamartine is in power and hopes that the Bonaparte family will give up this election!"
"Impossible!" Jérôme Bonaparte objected with a loud voice: "The Lamartine administration has no right to deprive the Bonaparte family of the right to participate in elections. According to the constitution of the French Republic, anyone who is over 18 years old and has settled in France for more than
Anyone who has been in France for two years can participate in the election!”
"Citizen Jérôme seems to know the French Constitution very well!" Tocqueville looked at Jérôme Bonaparte in surprise.
"If the Lamartine administration wants to deprive the Bonaparte family of their right to participate in politics, the Bonaparte family will definitely not agree! We will use all our resources to fight against the Lamartine administration!" Jérôme Bonaparte said categorically.
Once this and only opportunity is lost, it will never be possible for the Bonaparte family to return to French politics.
Jérôme Bonaparte would never allow this to happen, even if he fought against the rising republicans for it.