Chapter 18 Perseverance
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After exiting the Avenue de la Digier, Favre and Gambida got into the carriage prepared by the roadside and walked in the direction of the Palais Bourbon, where the Provisional Government had been established, but most of the government offices were still in a state of semi-paralysis. Because of the avalanche collapse of the Third Reich, many institutions lost their leadership for a while. Now the Provisional Government needs to quickly resolve these issues and establish a new order.
The next few days at the Palais Bourbon will be busier than expected.
However, when Favre and Gambida arrived at the Place de la Concorde, they were shocked by the lively scene, and they did not expect that so many citizens would gather on the Place de la Concorde. With the exception of the celebration of the day of the fall of the dictatorship of Napoleon III, such pomp and circumstance is not seen at any other time.
What the hell is going on?
Favre touched Gambida's arm with his elbow, pointing to the nearby Palais Bourbon. They stood in the middle of the crowd and whispered, "Isn't that a liar pretending to be Napoleon?" What does he want to do this time? ”
"I don't know."
Gan Bi shook his head, his eyes fixed on the French soldiers standing in the audience, and a sense of foreboding swelled in his heart. While they were still arguing, the other seemed to have a plan to deal with them, and planned to act faster than they did.
Step by step, the figure emerged from behind the pillars.
Recovering from his contemplation, Napoleon was now standing on the top of the marble steps of the Place de la Concorde, and standing in front of him was the infantry regiment transferred from other barracks to the Place de la Concorde, ostensibly a military parade unit, but in fact responsible for protecting Napoleon's life and ensuring that it would not cause a single war riot. Napoleon asked Blanqui to call the people to gather on the Place de la Concorde to listen to this rousing speech. According to Napoleon's previous statement, the speech was intended to stir up the emotions of the people of Paris to resist the invasion of the Prussian army.
"I'm standing here today with only one question, and I want to get the answer from your mouth."
The soldier did not speak, but simply stood in place in obedience. After the French people behind him opened his mouth, the voices gradually calmed down.
"The people of France, do you want to be cowards for the rest of your life, or do you want to be a hero, even if only for a few minutes. Now a bunch of shameless aggressors trample on the dignity of the French with their iron hooves and wantonly mock us as just a flock of lambs to the slaughter, are you a flock of impepious lambs? ”
"It's not."
The soldiers in the audience answered neatly and sonorously.
The citizens of Paris, who had been watching the excitement, slowly put away their mentality and looked at Napoleon with a straight face.
"I stand here to tell you that the Doge of Paris and I will never surrender, even if we fight until only one soldier remains, and we will shoot the bullet in our hands through the throat of the Prussian robbers."
The people of Paris were stunned.
They had never seen such a blunt speech, and his speech was more of a demagogue than the rhetoric of a politician.
Blanqui stood in the middle of the crowd, looking thoughtfully at Napoleon on the stage.
I have not seen his true military talents, but at least his eloquence is currently unmatched, and as for political means, Blanqui can only smile bitterly that he cannot match it.
"What a terrible fellow, whose political means and minds alone have steadily overpowered the members of the Republicans, and I am afraid that this speech also has another purpose, and Gambita and Favre may not have expected such a guy in Paris at all."
Blanqui squinted his eyes and said to himself, "If you don't support a republic, you're a natural dictator and monarch." ”
Napoleon looked around the noisy square and continued to exclaim, "And now, there are voices of peace in the upper echelons of the Provisional Government, yes, the Provisional Government of the Republican Government, who believe that the French deserve to cede Alsace-Lorraine and to pay billions of francs as war reparations for the Prussian bandits!" And these are some of the republicans you supported before the overthrow of Napoleon III's empire! ”
As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar.
Everyone around looked at each other, who would have thought that there were people in the top echelons of the Provisional Government who would actually want to negotiate peace with Prussia?
Napoleon, who preemptively blamed the republicans for treason, did not overturn a boatload of men, but used certain words carefully.
"In army units, can we tolerate the presence of timid soldiers who surrender as soon as they are surrounded by the enemy? Can you tolerate the existence of a cowardly commander who throws off his uniform and flees to the rear in the event of an enemy blow? No, it's absolutely impossible! If we give in to these cowards and deserters, then they will soon ruin our army and destroy our country. Cowards and deserters must be completely cleared, as should those who threaten to surrender to the Prussian army. If they think that it is a violation of human rights to execute them for making such statements, then I will arrest them and hand them over to the people to deal with. What will you do with these people? ”
The crowd shouted, "Hang them!" ”
Only Gambita and Favre, who were hiding in the crowd, were pale, and after such propaganda, even if Napoleon was really defeated and Gambida took over power, they would definitely be regarded as traitors to France.
The more impassioned Napoleon was at this time, the more despicable and shameless the republicans would be.
Meanness will eventually become the epitaph of the mean, not the pass of shamelessness.
"No matter what the cowardly politicians have, I will fight to the death. As long as I am in France, the army will continue to fight until the Prussian robbers step over my corpse! ”
"The people of France will not forgive any traitor who betrays the Motherland!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the soldiers on the Place de la Concorde raised their guns in their hands, their bayonets shining in the dazzling sunlight, representing the determination of Paris to resist to the death.
The movements are neat and uniform.
It is as if the glory of the First French Empire's conquest of Europe is reproduced at this moment!
And the conqueror, who was pointing at the continent, was being inspected by the troops on the stage. With tears in their eyes, the soldiers tried desperately to suppress their excitement, as if standing in front of them at this time was the savior of France seventy years ago.
A reenactment of the myth of undefeated.
Wherever Napoleon is present, it is the land of French conquest.
"France is a big country, but we have no way out!"
Napoleon was always one step ahead of him, and even if he was defeated, he was judged by the people in the name of the hero of France. On the other hand, the Republican Party, which has been nailed as traitors and traitors, wins or loses, and the people of Paris are likely to no longer trust them.
His impassionedness contrasts dramatically with Gambida's face as dead ashes.
"Because at our feet, Paris, the capital of the Third Reich! A soldier can choose to die a heroic death for the motherland and the people, but he will never surrender. ”
He drew the saber at his waist and pointed it at the pale sky.
"Remember, from now on, there will be only one slogan for the French army."
The soldier's throat rolled, and he craned his neck to look excitedly at the "Imperial Sovereign" in front of the column.
The audience waited quietly for the man on the Bourbon Palace to say the next sentence.
"Swear to the death, swear not to surrender!"