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Chapter 63: The Current Situation in France

The situation in France went as Jérôme Bonaparte expected.

After the incident of winning back the body of Louis Napoleon on June 1, Paris indeed ushered in a brief peace between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

The bourgeoisie once again remembered the glory of the Napoleonic Empire, while the proletariat believed that the government's return of Louis Napoleon's body was to implement Louis Napoleon's theories and seek benefits for the workers.

Under the false peace, the workers finally stayed quiet for a few days.

Lamartine was also highly praised by Paris for his strategy of retrieving the body of Louis Napoleon. His votes in the Seine Province surpassed Ledru Rolland, who was known as the "Friend of the Workers", and became the first in the Seine Province.

Everything seems to be moving in a good direction.

However, illusions are illusions after all. After a long wait of half a month, the happy workers did not wait for any reform measures from the government.

Starving, they decided to take action to protest again to the National Assembly.

On June 15, a group of workers rushed in front of the National Assembly, and the police officers responsible for guarding the National Assembly were disarmed by the workers.

The originally peaceful National Assembly became chaotic due to the appearance of workers.

The workers explained their origins to the members of the National Assembly and hoped that the National Assembly would face up to their demands.

Perhaps because of the overwhelming numbers of workers, members of the National Assembly pushed Thiers out of negotiations.

In order to stabilize the workers, Thiers pretended to agree to all the workers' suggestions.

Workers who believed in the impartiality of the National Assembly left with satisfaction.

Although General Goulden arrived afterwards and led the National Guard to arrest some workers, he was still dismissed from the National Assembly after seriously losing points in the National Assembly.

After this time, the National Assembly lost its last trace of patience with the workers.

With the encouragement of Thiers and others, Cavaignac, who had served as the Governor of Algeria and returned to Paris to report on his duties, was elected as the Minister of War of the French Republic.

This iron-blooded butcher will become the object of hatred among the Parisian working class.

After the executioner is ready, the next step is to take action.

With the authorization of the National Assembly, Cavaignac secretly transferred more than 50,000 troops from the Seine and nearby provinces to the suburbs of Paris.

Once the orders of the National Assembly are issued, they will rush to Paris.

On June 20, everything was ready, except to kick out the annoying ruling committee.

Under the proposal of Representative Fallo of the Party of Order [the Orthodox faction], the National Assembly decided to agree to Theo of Representative Fallo after intense discussions.

The newspaper "On the Dissolution of the National Assembly" appeared openly in Paris.

The workers angrily looked at the remarks published by the "National", a so-called republican newspaper. They did not want to believe that the government they fought hard for in February would abandon them in just four months.

On June 25, a massive parade began, involving nearly 30,000 workers. The whole of Paris seemed to be occupied in an instant. Those handsomely dressed gentlemen and ladies stood at the window and looked at the shabby workers holding red flags.

The eyes of the workers were full of fear and disgust. In their eyes, these workers were not people who shared their fate and had a greater destiny. They were parasites of the entire Paris, rioters who destroyed their tranquility.

The workers marched fearlessly under the disgusted eyes of the property owners. They came to the Paris City Hall and demanded an explanation from Paris.

However, what awaited them was not government mediators, but a cold notice.

The notice said: According to the unanimous consent of the National Assembly and the ruling committee, the national factories will be dissolved, the young and middle-aged people in the national factories will be incorporated into the army, and the remaining personnel will be sent to other provinces to work.

This notice is more of a declaration of war from the bourgeois government than a notice.

It was not the so-called aristocrats who issued this notice, but a group of scholars, psychologists, and poets. These people who should have been on the same front as the working people have now become potential executioners who want the lives of workers.

When the workers were about to negotiate with the ruling committee, Paris Mayor Marast met with representatives elected by the workers. The workers' representatives told Marast that if the government did not revoke the order, they would start a revolution like the February Revolution.

Another revolution.

Marast did not take the threat of the workers' representatives to heart. He told the workers' representatives in an arrogant manner that either the workers would obey the government's orders and disband themselves, or the government would force the workers to disband.

The second condition is not as favorable as the first condition.

[After this incident, Marast became the Speaker of the National Assembly.]

"Sir, then we will defend our rights in our own way!" The worker representative typed an ultimatum to Marast with trembling lips.

Marast, who knew from some way that the army was stationed, would certainly not be afraid of the threat from the workers. Once the workers took action, what awaited them would be the thunder of 50,000 troops in conjunction with the National Guard.

Marast continued to speak to the workers in a arrogant tone: "It's all up to you!"

The workers' representatives led the workers to leave, and they wanted to use this last time to mobilize.

The National Assembly is also not idle. Driven by the Party of Order, an authoritarian proposal to suspend the power of the ruling council and transfer it to Cavaignac is being put to a vote.

The person who proposed this proposal was Bastide, who succeeded Lamartine as French Foreign Minister.

[Bastide: a right-wing republican who succeeded Lamartine as Minister of Foreign Affairs in early June and was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of the dictator Cavaignac.]

The Party of Order and the Republican right-wingers unanimously agreed to the proposal to suspend the ruling committee and also announced the appointment of Cavaignac as the ruling party, which is currently the only ruling party in France.

After the meeting, the Bonapartists gathered in Princess Mathilde's private residence to plot.

"Your Highness is right! Those guys are really going to attack them!" Pesini said with excitement.

"Yes! I didn't expect that they couldn't bear it so quickly!" Rouai also sighed with emotion. The peace only lasted for less than half a month before another revolution was about to be born.

"My brother didn't tell me, what should I do next?" Princess Mathilde asked.

Since Pierre Bonaparte's intention to replace Jerome Bonaparte as Bonaparte leader was thwarted, the old Jerome Bonaparte had no intention of Bonaparte's small group and helped his younger brother Mathilde.

.Bonaparte became the backbone of the French Bonapartists.

"His Royal Highness asked us in the letter to restrain ourselves during the martial law period and not to let them find out that we missed it."

"Rue, let all Bonapartists try not to be exposed to the government's sight during this period."

"yes!"


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