"My Honourable Majesty, you must be on high alert to the Marquis de Lafayette. There is certainly some truth in what the Marquis de Lafayette said, and it can even be said that, on the whole, what he said can be called an unbreakable truth.

But, my majesty, you must know that to deceive people, the truth is much better than lies. Many times, people who are naturally intelligent, like Your Majesty, can always see through those lies at a glance. But the truth is different, and with the right emphasis and hints, the truth is often more deceptive than a lie. Lafayette was one such false Caesar who was adept at using the truth to deceive people.

'Times have changed' and 'a constitutional monarchy is the future', and that's true. But the most important point is that Lafayette probably didn't mention it to you. That is: who is the constitutional monarchy under whose auspices is the constitutional monarchy!

In today's constitutional monarchy, IMHO, the king is just a hostage, and he is not really, universally respected. I think your Majesty must have noticed that the various newspapers in Paris, some of the radical ones, such as the "Friends of the People" and the like, proclaimed the establishment of a republic, the complete end of the Bourbon rule over France, and the transformation of France into a republic. And this theory has quite a few adherents in Parliament. Some people who were originally mild-mannered also have a tendency to turn against them. It's a very scary thing.

Why did these people make such a choice? The reason is simple, and that is that the thugs have shown their power, and people know that they have power and that they are willing to use it. But my majesty, our king, because of his generosity, has never been willing to use his power, or even to show his power.

If a king, although he wears a crown, is unwilling to show his strength, then what is there about the crown to be awe-inspiring? Your Majesty, on many occasions, is reluctant to show strength, which is almost the same as the effect of not having it.

On the other hand, Lafayette is right when he says that the current royal party is not reliable. With all due respect, my Majesty, as it is said in Macbeth: 'The more people who are close to us in blood, the more they want to drink our blood.' You have to be wary of them – even if they are your loved ones.

But my Majesty, in this matter Lafayette still used his usual means. He tells you the truth, but he never tells you the whole truth. The facts are completely different from the whole truth. One thing that is completely different between the royal party and the republican rebels is that the royal party must rely on the king. The king has a natural authority over them. They may have used various intrigues and even techniques such as killing people with knives to calculate the king, but they have no way to directly confront the king. The king is their natural leader, whether some of them want it or not.

As for Lafayette, my wise majesty, I call him 'False Caesar' because Lafayette pretends to be in possession of an army, and dresses himself up as if he could command thousands of troops with a single word, like Caesar. In fact, Lafayette's control over the army was completely incomparable to that of the real Caesar.

The real Caesar had in his hands a legion that had been fighting under him for a long time, and all aspects of this legion, including logistics, including the selection and promotion of officers, were all decided by Caesar. So Caesar was able to easily drive them to do anything, including marching on Rome. But Lafayette did not have such an army in his hands, he only had the so-called 'prestige'. And how can this 'prestige' be compared to the legitimacy of His Majesty the King? Now he can control the situation, in fact, it is not his own strength, but the legitimacy of His Majesty the King. Only His Majesty the King was under his control that he could take control of the French army.

Today, this 'false Caesar' is carrying out a 'reform' of the army. Your Majesty, this is exactly what Lafayette intends to do to make up for his weakness. If he can control His Majesty for a long time, then he may have a day when he can truly control the army. At that time, the false Caesar will be able to become the real Caesar. Perhaps Lafayette did sincerely wish to achieve a constitutional monarchy, but the constitutional monarchy achieved in such a situation was a constitutional monarchy that was extremely unfavorable to His Majesty. Because the continuation of any contract depends on mutual reverence on both sides. The parliament had shown its strength, and the king had never shown any power. In such a contract, the parliament becomes the party given from above, and the king becomes almost a beggar. Such a constitutional system cannot be sustained. There will always be people in parliament who will try to attract attention in more extreme ways, and insulting the king will be the best way for them to grandstand. And so on, eventually, they will ask, 'Why do we need a king?' ’

But this is not the case with a constitutional monarchy in the United Kingdom. The British royal family has shown its strength in many ways, and both the parliament and the king respect each other's strength, and thus each other's interests. This is a stable, reliable constitutional monarchy.

My Majesty, in response to your inquiry as to how the royal family should respond to the present situation, your humble subjects have the following suggestions.

First of all, you and His Majesty the King must assume great trust in Lafayette and act deferentially to the Parliament in order to paralyze them. On the other hand, you need to make sure that His Majesty understands how dangerous the situation is. He had to do something.

Wechen thought that continuing to stay in Paris would not do the king any good or the entire royal family. Therefore, as soon as he had the opportunity, the king should leave Paris and go to some other safer place. Weichen believes that such a place should have the following characteristics.

First, the place should be generally pro-royal and pro-orthodox.

Second, the place should be far from the border. This is due to several considerations. In the first place, it was to show the people of the whole country that the king was not colluding with foreign powers, as the scoundrels said in the nasty tabloids such as the Friends of the People; Secondly, it is also to prevent some careerists who are not really loyal to the king, but try to use foreign power to seek more benefits for themselves.

With all these considerations in mind, I personally believe that Lyon would be the most suitable location.

Your faithful servant

Honoré Gabriel Rikti"

Honoré Gabriel Ricetti was the Marquis de Mirabeau, president of the National Assembly, a staunch revolutionary, and one of the leaders of the French Revolution. He has always been regarded as the most determined and radical revolutionary. So, if his letter to Queen Marie Antoinette were to be seen by someone else, it would have caused a stir. In fact, in the original history, after Mirabeau's death, his body received the glory of being buried in the Panthéon for his contribution to the revolution. However, soon after, the king was arrested, and the correspondence between Mirabeau and the queen was found in the royal palace, only to find out that Mirabeau had actually defected to the royal family. The angry crowd pulled his body out of the Panthéon and threw it into the garbage. (Of course, the man, who shared Louis XIV's belief in "the flood after my death," would not have cared about these things.) ）

Mirabeau was a man of luxury, and he had a lot of mistresses by his side, so his expenses were always very large. Normal, legal income is not enough to support his life. Ever since Lafayette banished his good friend (and good wallet), the Duke of Orléans, from France, Mirabeau's life has become increasingly difficult, and it is said that he was once again raised by the Jews at the rate of interest on his loans.

The king and queen, who had been taken hostage by the National Guard and had become almost prisoners of Paris, were in dire need of someone who could speak for them by having influence in parliament. At this time, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a scholar and biologist who had been associated with the court, recommended his friend Mirabeau to the queen.

Lamarck was one of the earliest proposers of the theory of evolution, and in 1809, he published the Philosophy of Zoology, which proposed Lamarck's theory of evolution. It was also in this year that another standard-bearer of evolution, Charles Robert Darwin, was born in England. The two principles of Lamarck's theory of evolution, namely the use of advance and waste and acquired inheritance, have basically been denied by later research, but his academic contributions are still indelible.

Under the guidance of Lamarck, Mirabeau, who was once again on the verge of bankruptcy, quietly contacted the queen. In fact, Mirabeau tried to contact the queen as early as last July, after the Bastille was breached. But at that time, the queen still looked down on a prodigal like Mirabeau. She rejected his offer without any care, like he was just an obnoxious fly.

But these days, the price to buy this person is much higher. It is said that the queen prepared four cheques for 250,000 livres each for Mirabeau, and only then did she get Mirabeau's help. It was also under Mirabeau's secret push that the royal family was able to move from the Tuileries Palace, which was closer to the city centre and therefore more difficult to escape, to the more accessible Saint-Croix Palace.

"My dear, do you think Mirabeau is right?" Queen Mary asked. But the man she called "dear" was not King Louis XVI, but another Swede named Axeld Fessen. He was the son of a respected member of the Swedish House of Lords, and was Queen Mary's secret mistress and true trust.

"Mirabeau is a very talented and skilled person." "But because of that, I don't know if we can trust him." ”

Queen Mary nodded, "You're right. Lafayette did not have any loyalty to the king, but at least, he was still a man with ideals and bottom lines. But Mirabeau, he's a bad seed who deserves hell! I really had a hard time believing him. And if it wasn't for them......"

Faison sighed, he knew that neither he nor the queen could intellectually compete with the old fox Mirabeau. And the queen is still haunted by the fact that Mirabeau led the rebellion in the first place. Although everyone knows that now is not the time to pursue this kind of thing, the resentment in my heart is always difficult to calm.