"How could they do this? These people just couldn't live any longer, so they took this step!"
An Ning: "Maybe the master who commands the cavalry doesn't regard civilians as human beings at all."
At this time, Mara saw the commander of the cuirassiers riding on a tall horse. Before An Ning could react, he rushed out and stopped in front of the master's horse.
"Sir! I protest! You cannot do this to defenseless people!"
The old man probably frowned because of Mara's appearance. He said loudly: "Who are you? What's wrong with the gangsters who were ordered to suppress the riots? Look at what they have done. What's wrong with the poor factory owner?"
wrong?"
Mara shouted without flinching: "I am sure that his failure to pay wages triggered this incident!"
The old man snorted: "You can send the boss to the lamppost without paying wages? Is there any royal law? As for you, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will throw you under the iron hooves of the cavalry and crush you! It's just that
A bunch of trash at the lowest level, they will die if they die!"
Marat continued to have attacks, and An Ning directly pulled him back. Now Marat is not ready to die. Now that he is dead, who will be killed by the royalist "saints" in the future?
Oh no, that reverses the cause and effect. Lady Charlotte Corday was regarded as a saint by the royalists because she killed Marat.
The irony is that Charlotte herself was a republican, and because she killed Marat, she was regarded as a saint by the old royalist aristocrats and die-hards.
An Ning dragged Mala to the side of the alley.
Marat was still very emotional: "This is a murder! I want to criticize the cavalry officer just now on the Friends of the People! Just wait and see, I want to make his atrocities known to everyone!"
An Ning: "Of course you can do this, but if I didn't pull you back just now, I'm afraid there would be no editor-in-chief of Friends of the People."
Mara thought for a while and nodded. He seemed a little calmer: "You are right, my battlefield is not here, but in the field of public opinion. I want to severely criticize this action and speak out loudly!"
The result of this "watching the fun" was that Marat wrote a long and impassioned article in the next day's newspaper, shaping the rebellious workers into progressives demanding reform, and describing the repressive cavalry commander as
Unforgivable crimes.
But now there are all kinds of voices in Paris, and some newspapers published on the same day described the workers as robbers who broke into the boss's house and killed him.
For a time, the whole of Paris was in an uproar because of this incident, and almost everyone was discussing it.
But after this incident, the workers found that the factory owners were obviously much easier to talk to.
This incident was eventually called the Reveillon Incident by people in Paris.
On April 29, the Paris police took several people who were said to be the leaders of the incident to Place Louis XV and prepared to publicly execute them with "sticks."
An Ning arrived at the square early that morning.
In addition to him, there were many people who came from all over Paris.
Place Louis XV was later known as Place de la Concorde. Geographically speaking, this is the center of Paris.
The execution started at one o'clock in the afternoon. By this time, a large number of people had gathered in the square. As the executioner's stick hit the victim's back, a roar resounded throughout the square.
Tortured: "Long live the Third Estate!"
An Ning opened her mouth wide.
The victims did not look like gentlemen who would go to the club. It seemed that the idea that the third estate was everything had spread widely among ordinary people, not just among decent gentlemen.
The sans-culottes have realized that they should stand up and fight for their rights.
As the execution progressed, the victim's voice became weaker and weaker, and his back was completely swollen from the beatings, and the skin was torn in many places.
However, his voice became even more shocking as it gradually became weaker and weaker - even after being beaten like this, he still continued to shout "Long live the Third Estate"!
Finally, someone among the onlookers shouted with him: "Long live the Third Estate!"
At this time, the entire square was like ignited hay, and the crowd shouted overwhelmingly: "Long live the Third Estate!"
"The third level is everything!"
"The third level will get everything!"
An Ning was at the center of the whirlpool. Infected by this scene, she also shouted together: "It's everything!"
After returning from Place Louis XV, An Ning sat at the table and couldn't calm down for a long time. He said to Fanny who came in to ask him to eat: "Do you know? This city is now like a volcano before it erupts. There is something hidden under the calm surface.
With strength, I felt this strength today in the square."
Fanny looked uninterested: "I don't know what strength or lack of strength is. I only know that it's time to eat. Today you should go to the Duke's Mansion for dinner. The master, the lady, and several young masters are waiting for you."
An Ning: "Miss is back?"
"Yes, I just came back from her stay at the Palace of Versailles today. It is said that the Queen granted her a few days of leave."
Christina has been promoted to captain in the Royal Guards and leads an entire Queen's honor guard. In her letter to An Ning, Christina describes this honor guard as a beauty who can dominate the party at the ball.
An Ning really wanted to see the queen's beauties' bodyguards. When the three-level parliament is convened, An Ning will also be in the Palace of Versailles, so she should have the opportunity to see them.
Fanny: "Miss, I came to see you in the morning, but you went to watch the execution."
An Ning: "I'm not going to watch the execution, I'm going to observe the people's condition. Don't make it sound like I'm just an idler running around with nothing to do."
"Aren't you?" Fanny asked.
Recently, Fanny no longer uses honorifics when talking to An Ning. Only when she wants to ridicule An Ning, she will use honorifics seriously.
An Ning couldn't refute Fanny's ridicule. After all, in the eyes of outsiders, An Ning just wandered around doing nothing.
He stood up: "Let's go, let's go eat."
**
In the restaurant of the main building of the Royal Palace, An Ning met Christina wearing a captain's uniform.
This military uniform is different from the men's military uniform. It looks like - yes, just like the little skirt that Napoleon's sister Pauline wears in the game "The Banner of Saints", which is modified from a military uniform.
Christina looked very dashing in her outfit on the boat, but it was a pity that this outfit covered up her proud breasts to a certain extent.
As soon as Christina saw An Ning, she came up to him with great joy and gave him a hug: "Andy! I miss you so much! I tell you, I told you about your bravery over and over again in the army. The Queen's guards are now
I have turned you into your little crush!"
An Ning smiled and said: "That's good. When the three-level parliament is convened, I will also go to the Palace of Versailles. Maybe I can look forward to an affair."
Christina laughed and said: "Did you choose this representative to have an affair? It's really yours."
——No, no, I chose this representative to check in and sit on the fence.
At this time, Christina said again: "By the way, the Queen recently heard about the riots in Reveillon at the salon. I told her that the people rioted because they didn't have enough to eat and the bread was too expensive. What do you think the Queen's answer was?
I?"
An Ning thought, is it coming? In fact, in another time and space, Queen Mary did not say the famous saying "Since there is no bread to eat, why not eat cake?" It was made up by someone in the Paris public opinion field at the time to oppose the Queen.
.
This time and space looks like...
Christina: "The queen told me that bread is expensive and I already know that since they can't afford bread, why don't these people eat cake?"