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"Your Excellency Mérimée, are you still summoning the spirits of your dead empire? I've lived for more than half a century, haven't you figured it out? The French monarchy is gone, this is the wheel of the course of history, and anyone with a little common sense will see that if you continue to move forward, can you royalists, a group of gangsters with mantis arms as a car, be able to stop it? ”

A sharp and piercing taunt sounded from behind the red curtain, and one hand moved the curtain to cover it, and a grim expression slowly appeared in front of Mérimée as the curtain rose.

"Of course, a person's life depends on self-struggle, but at the same time, it must also take into account the course of history. Your master Louis was finished with his army in Sedan, and still wants to encourage Napoleon to side with your Bonaparte? He was the republican Napoleon, not the royalist of Bonaparte. ”

Hugo approached Mérimée step by step, his gaze majestic like the cold glow of Hannibal's song, piercing Mérimée's soul, forcing him to fade away from the filthy nature of losing power and revealing the inflamed and powerful, and there was nowhere to retreat under Hugo's questioning.

He was a great man of the Republic, and he glanced at Eugenie again, and said in a disdainful tone, "Louie's slut, your soul is filthy than I thought. ”

He contemptuously referred to the monarch of the Second Empire as Louis, the most hearty revenge on Louis Bonaparte, who had been in exile for more than twenty years.

Napoleon did not realize that Congressman Hugo would suddenly appear here, so he simply took a step back and shook his hand to the side to watch the show. The best weapon for politicians to deal with literati is repression, but they are inevitably criticized by society, and literati are the best at dealing with literati, especially poisonous tongues like Hugo.

Mérimée, who was speechless to refute, angrily exposed Hugo's emotional experience and directly began a personal attack, "Do you remember the night affair between your friend Sainte-Beuve and your wife? ”

Hugo shrugged indifferently, "I have long chosen to forgive my lady. It's you, who hooked up with Felix Lacoste's wife Emar when you were young, but was shot in the shoulder and arm three times by Lacoste, and you didn't dare to fight back cowardly, and said that you were unwilling to do it in the spirit of chivalry, did you selectively forget about this matter? I can forgive my wife's cheating with tolerance, can you face up to your experience of being beaten? ”

"You!"

Mérimée was blocked and had nothing to say, if he was a few dozen years younger, he would probably jump up and fight with Hugo. However, the big troll Hugo did not stop his gushing.

"Do you think you'll be able to catch Eugenie? Unexpectedly, the Second Empire will fall much faster than you can climb up. Saying that you are a literati has insulted the word literati, I think you are more like a villain who is attached to the power, and I have never even seen a person as brazen as you. ”

Merry covered his chest angrily, the perennial celebrity gatherings of the palace hollowed out his body with wine, Jianghua his thinking and eloquence, if there was really a duel with white gloves, maybe he was really not Hugo's opponent.

Hugo's hand pointed to the door at the end of the corridor and said in a cold voice, "Get out!" ”

"If I see you making small moves behind your back, be careful that you end up like King Louis, the people of Paris are not as patient as I am."

Forced into desperation, Eugénie could only help Mérimée to leave, and after losing the power of the Bonaparte family, the regent chose to keep a low profile and try not to attract attention.

Seeing that Mérimée was forced to go away helplessly, Hugo turned around and said to Napoleon behind him, "His Excellency Napoleon didn't agree to the other party's request, did he?" ”

"Nope."

Napoleon replied, "Mérimée thought that a man with the surname Bonaparte would be able to save their lost empire by sitting at the top, but they forgot one thing, I would not be on the side of the Bonaparte." ”

The elderly Hugo smiled with satisfaction, he had fought the empire for almost twenty years, and finally waited for someone who recognized.

Ironically, this man actually called himself Napoleon Bonaparte.

"I am not mistaken, Your Excellency Napoleon. I was skeptical of your defense of the republic, but as soon as I listened to your conversation with Mérimée, I knew that Doge Trochu had not chosen the wrong man. ”

Napoleon asked rhetorically, "So if I were to suppress the royalists like a dictator, would you choose to side with me?" ”

Hugo was about to take his leave, but when he heard Napoleon's words, he stopped again. Instead of giving the other party an answer right away, he fell into deep thought. Finally, in a deep voice, Hugo said, "In February 1848 a revolution broke out in Paris. The people took to the streets, and the July dynasty fell. I went to the crowd and announced to them: The king has abdicated! The Duchess of Orleans will be Queen Regent! However, my first sentence was warmly applauded, but the latter was angrily condemned. Someone shouted: Hang the French aristocracy! That's when I began to think that France could not be freed and reborn by ousting an incompetent monarch from power. There are far more people who want to restore the monarchy than those who defend the republican system. ”

"I forgot to tell your majesty that the Duke of La Rocheffoucault was so pale when he left the scene that he couldn't even hold the cane in his hand. It's like someone is going to announce the family's obituary to him tomorrow. Maybe those people who are in trouble have nothing to do with our Lord Duke? ”

Napoleon was finally relieved that the representatives of the republican literati were on his side, and that the public opinion of the Parisian newspapers would turn against him, which was another important front.

Napoleon laid the groundwork here, with the republican public opinion machine and the Blanqui people on their side, and if the royalists of the National Convention after the war tried to eradicate the fruits of the victory of the Third Reich through a bourgeois revolution, then what awaited them would be the bloodiest political movement in Paris.

Since Hugo chose himself, he was also willing to repay the favor, and asked tentatively, "You are really a weapon of public opinion in the Empire, Councilor Hugo, if you can, our Propaganda Department just lacks a person like you to be responsible for our wartime propaganda, I don't know if you mind?" ”

"Of course you can, but I'm not an Imperial propaganda weapon."

Hugo pursed his lips, trying to correct Napoleon's point of view.

"I am a faithful servant of the republican system."

Among the people who came out of the Paris Opera, only the Duke of La Rocheffoucault was pale, and he had promised the royalists to muddy each other's speeches in the opera house, but now he didn't expect to turn around and kill each other directly.

Duke La Rochefoucauld didn't want to know what happened to those who were dragged down, but if one of them slipped out of his mouth and pulled it on him, he probably wouldn't have escaped his fate according to his previous act of inciting mobs to smash at Shelid Manor.

Just as the Duke instructed the coachman to go back as soon as possible, the carriage suddenly opened.

The face he least wanted to see was staring at him in front of him.

Napoleon looked at him with a smile, a white, dyed red cloth wiping his bloodied hands.

He stepped forward, stepped directly into the carriage, and sat down in front of the Duke of La Rocheffoucault.

And then say a creepy word.

"I'll tell you about what happened tonight, Lord Duke. Just executed a couple of troublemakers, sorry, my hands are full of blood to scare you. ”