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Chapter 33 Timing
To be honest, Louis XVI didn't understand the thoughts of these mobs. In his opinion, Necker was not the kind of person who could perform miracles.

But the Parisian mob kept petitioning him for Necker's return.

Louis XVI felt extremely aggrieved. In the communication with Selim, he always claimed to be the most powerful monarch in Europe.

In his opinion, France is the most monarchical country in Europe.

France will not change hands like the Ottoman Empire, and soldiers dare to kill the sultan; it will not be as low as Britain, where a king can be publicly executed; it will not be weak like Russia, where a German woman can take away the tsar The position; it will not be as incompetent as the Holy Roman Empire, and the princes dare to fight against the emperor.

The belief that I am the nation has been the principle of every king since the Sun King.

But when the mob broke through the Bastille and pressed against him, Louis XVI suddenly found that the scorching sun hanging over France seemed to have dimmed.

"It has been almost 80 years since the Sun King passed away. Is the glory of the Bourbon family going to be destroyed in one's own hands?"

Louis XVI was thinking pessimistically, and the Duke of La Rochefoucauld urged: "Your Majesty, you need to answer the petition of the people."

"That's enough, Your Excellency, Necker is a despicable and shameless villain. If it weren't for this damn Swiss, how could the French budget and privilege annual salary be leaked!"

Louis XVI, who had always been gentle, seemed to have completely lost his demeanor as a king at this moment, cursing Necker.

"This scumbag banker deliberately misled the French people so that they did not have a clear understanding of their economic situation.

He sowed discord among the royal family and the people, causing the order in France to be disrupted and turbulent.

This damned guy only has in mind the money he has paid to stabilize France, but he doesn't want to think about what a big country France is!

We fought the British in North America, and let them lose thirteen states, and we raised a new country, so that they would no longer be oppressed by the British.

Such a feat, but Necker can only see the money he invested, and his ancestors must be a bloody Jew, which makes the bastard short-sighted and difficult to see the final return. "

The Duke of La Rochefoucauld could understand Louis XVI's outburst, and he persuaded Louis XVI tactfully.

"Your Majesty, you are right, at the third-level meeting, Necker's speech disappointed everyone.

But for unknown reasons, he is regarded by the public as an indispensable key figure.

As announced by the Marquis of Larry-Tollerdale.

"As we have seen and heard, from the streets to the squares, from the quays to the marketplaces, the cry of 'Bring Necker back' resounds everywhere!
Your Majesty, at this time the people's demands are commands: we must demand his reinstatement. "

Louis XVI leaned on the armrest dejectedly, the resentment in his heart made it almost difficult for him to stand still.

"This gang of mobs is really disgusting."

The king tried to suppress his anger, but the curse continued to escape his lips.

In the end, the embarrassed king was forced to recall Necker.

The next morning, the Swiss banker made his way back to Paris through the agitated crowd.

"Long live the country! Long live the representatives! Long live Mr. Lafayette!"

Obviously, long live the king!The voices are pitifully few. "

The British ambassador, the Duke of Dorset, recorded that "Louis XVI was more a captive than a king, led like a tamed bear."

After arriving at the city hall, someone handed the tricolor cockade to Louis XVI, who immediately took it and stuck it on his hat.

After stammering a short speech, he stepped out on to the balcony, where he was greeted with ovation as he donned his cap badge.

I am afraid that no one has ever expected that Louis XVI would be so popular. "

But this good situation did not last long.The National Assembly gained new powers to institute reforms and formulate a constitution, but life became harder every day for the urban poor and peasants across France.

A Venetian ambassador wrote: "The first gift that the Reformation intended to bring to France was a dreadful state of anarchy .

"Riots broke out all over France. In Troyes, the mayor was killed; in Rennes, the royal garrison fled en masse; in Marseilles, the garrison was forcibly disbanded by an armed mob. Prisons were broken into, prisoners released, the general arsenal Looted and occupied town halls everywhere.

In Paris, the deputy mayor of Saint-Denis was chased by a mob through the streets and fled to the top of a church tower, where he was beheaded.

All France was in a state of frenzy, and everywhere people were arrested and executed.

A minister named Furlon de Douai in the government of Louis XVI once said that if people are hungry, they should be given hay.

As a result, they put a nettle ring around his neck, put a handful of thistles in his hand, stuffed a handful of hay in his mouth, and hanged him from a lamppost.

On August 8, the young Viscount Noailles, who had fought alongside Lafayette in the United States, proposed to the National Constituent Assembly to abolish all feudal powers.

He had the support of the Duke of Aiguillon, the most powerful landowner in France, although no one knew why.

Noaille's proposal sparked an enthusiastic response, and one by one nobles and church dignitaries were asked to stand up and renounce their rights and privileges.

The meeting continued late into the night, and finally the Marquis of Larry-Tollerdale sent a message to the chairman: "Stop the meeting, they are all crazy."

The next morning, most had changed their minds again.

Over the next few days, the waiver was substantially revised.

But in any case the abstention would be forbidden, because the king would not allow it.

"I will never consent to the plundering of my clergy and nobles," he told the Archbishop of Arles, "nor will I approve a decree that attempts to rob them."

Louis XVI didn't seem to understand his situation, and although he was terrified by the situation, he didn't think the French would execute their king.

Constantinier, Napoleon, who was leading the garrison in Egypt, returned quickly after receiving Selim's letter.

"Your Majesty, when do you think I should go back?"

The little man asked Selim's opinion, and there was no panic on his plain face.

"Wait a little longer, Bonaparte, until the Austrians, the English, and the Prussians can't bear it, then France will remember that it needs a general."

Selim replied, "Seize the moment, and you will realize your ideal!"

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(End of this chapter)