Chapter 1545 “Night Terrors”

In 1643, King Louis XIV of France was only 5 years old when he ascended the throne, and the Queen Mother served as Queen Regent. Her favorite Cardinal Mazarin served as Prime Minister, and he was the actual ruler of France.

At that time, the Thirty Years' War was about to end. In order to meet the needs of the war, Mazarin advanced money to financiers and allowed them to collect taxes and collect national income in exchange. These tax collectors made huge profits from this, which aroused the aristocracy's anger.

Jealousy and the anger of the people.

When the people in other provinces were plundered and their wealth was exhausted, the government planned to squeeze the middle class and high court judges in Paris. In April 1648, the palace issued an edict suspending the salaries of high court judges in various places for four years, thereby intensifying conflicts.

In May 1648, the Paris High Court, in conjunction with local courts, put forward 27 recommendations in the name of rectifying government abuses, declared the censors sent by the king to various places unconstitutional, and demanded strict financial reforms to protect personal freedom. In August 1648, the Paris High Court declared that the censors sent to various places by the king were unconstitutional.

Encouraged by Prince Condé's victory at the Battle of Lens, the Queen Mother and Mazarin ordered the arrest of three people, including P. Brussels, who led the movement. This atrocity immediately aroused the anger of the people.

So the Fronde movement broke out.

The young Louis XIV and his mother had experienced everything, so he didn't like Paris or Parisians that much. After he came to power, he began to build the Palace of Versailles and planned to move the administrative center from Paris to Versailles, away from this place.

A place that poses a threat to the mother and son.

On January 5, 1649, Paris was celebrating the Festival of the Three Kings. In this cold winter, the streets were empty, but every house was decorated with lights and colors, and cheerful banquets were placed everywhere.

The happy festival lasted until late at night. The Queen Mother ate her piece of king cake. It is a tradition for the three kings to eat king cake. Anyone who finds the small porcelain figures representing the "king" and "queen" in the multi-layered cake can

Choose your own king and queen and put on the crown for yourself. So everyone brought a paper crown for the queen mother, and all the guests felt happy and happy.

At midnight, the queen returned to her room as usual, washed herself and prepared to go to sleep... Halfway through her sleep, she suddenly sat up and woke up her two sons. Then the queen mother went through the back door with Louis and Philip.

They walked up the stairs and through the secret door to the garden of the palace, where a team of horse and carriage attendants were waiting for them. Three carriages carried the future monarch, his brother and his mother to leave Paris.

News of this emergency evacuation quickly spread throughout the palace and spread like crazy. Immediately everyone received instructions to follow the queen out of Paris, so that night a pair of long motorcades with royal emblems passed through

Wilderness, driving towards the outside of Paris.

In the carriage were men who had put on clothes in a hurry, women with disheveled hair, and sleepy children. After an exhausting journey, they arrived at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The castle was not prepared to welcome the nobles of the palace.

In preparation, all the rooms were empty and cold. Only the king, his brother, mother and Cardinal Mazarin could sleep on the simple beds in the castle, while the others could only make do with straw mats on the ground.

Early the next morning, the corridors of the castle were crowded with a group of people who were confused and angry. Some of the palace ministers who came here were no longer well-dressed, unkempt, and looked uneasy. The news that the Queen Mother had escaped with her son caused a stir in Paris.

Everyone was shocked. Although the king was still young, he was still the father of a country and the protector of the entire country.

Although completely unaware of what was going on, the Supreme Court decided to stop the endless debate and sent a team of representatives to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to ask the regent to take the king back to Paris. But when these representatives arrived at the castle, the Queen Mother was confronted

He refused to be interviewed expressionlessly, and even refused to make any superficial gestures.

During this period, the Paris City Hall became a "playground". The revolted bourgeoisie and the Fronde nobles held dances, singing and dancing to the sound of violins. There were also angry Paris citizens who aimed cannons at the stone walls of the Bastille and fired shells.

, men and women came from all over, and drank the wine that the troops had in the cellar of the prison. The Queen Mother lived in Saint-Germain-en-Laye for seven months, and finally returned to the palace. Two years later, the leader of the Fronde was afraid of the Queen Mother.

After leaving Paris with his two sons, he ordered all the gates of Paris to be closed at night. Louis' uncle, the Duke of Orleans, sent a team of Swiss mercenaries to ensure that the young king was indeed still in Paris.

After Louis XIV came of age, he demolished all the city walls in Paris. In addition to political reasons, he also vented his personal anger. The city walls were demolished, and even if the city gates were closed, he could not be imprisoned.

Georgiana's sudden departure that night caused quite a stir. Many of the guests attending the Sèvres ball were British. They discovered that Georgiana was missing. Thinking of the recent diplomatic turmoil, they all returned to the small military camp.

Go to town.

Then came Léon Coure, the chief executive of Paris. He thought that Napoleon was finally going to take action against the old aristocrats in order to appease the Brumaire Party.

The residents of the town of Saint-Germain were also frightened. They thought that arranging them to live in the town was a trap. Napoleon's purpose was to kill them all so that he could seize their property.

In the end Napoleon had no choice but to declare Georgiana "mad".

Everyone knows about the turmoil caused by Mrs. G. Not only the tabloids, but also some official newspapers are also discussing this "emergency". Everyone is talking about it with a happy mood. Which woman has encountered this?

Don't get angry when things happen?

Everyone thought that Georgiana had gone to some royal villa to play, but they did not expect that she was in Paris and living in the villa of the lesbian Miss Desert Luo.

Later, Miss Desert Law felt that this incident was quite a big deal, and she was afraid of being implicated, so she showed Georgiana a newspaper that published the incident.

Then she came back.

Was Bonaparte angry about this? He was not. This was different from the last time in Lyon when he found out that she was wearing men's clothes for a private meeting with Miss Desert Luo, and slashed her clothes with a sword and threatened to shoot her.

But he told her that in the future, in addition to the Mamluks, there would be a group of "guides" who would "protect" her. This "guide" had been seen by Georgiana in Rambouillet, and its commander was Bessières, who was

The predecessor of the Chasseur Guards.

He may have thought she was just throwing a tantrum and "ran away", and if Georgiana had been a teenager, she might have been frightened by him.

"Isn't Louis XIV's mother Anna of Austria?" she said coldly.

"That's what you just said. Louis XIV's mother was Medici." Bonaparte said with a smile, "Why are you remembering that?"

Georgiana began to recall which of King Louis' mothers was from the Medici family.

"You like the Renaissance, don't you?" Bonaparte asked.

"That's right," she said bluntly, "but I never thought about owning Venice."

"I want Milan." He said very bluntly, "No matter how much you protest this time, I will not give up Valais."

She pouted "Where is my gift?"

"You really like to ask a question about what made the soldiers move the lever to lift the cannon and tree stumps stuck in the snow." He then said, "I can answer your question, but you have to agree to one condition.

"

"What conditions?"

"You can hit me and scold me, but don't do it like this time..." Before he could finish his words, Georgiana slapped him on the forehead again.

"Have you ever thought about what will happen to Josephine when she comes back?" she asked coldly.

He shook his head, "Her parents have gone back."

"Are you free now?" she said with a fake smile.

He sighed, "I think this will be a stain on my life."

"At least you didn't get sick." She continued to smile and said, "Congratulations."

He couldn't help but roll his eyes.

She was so angry that she punched him a few more times.

After the beating until she lost all strength, she lay on top of him and cried again.

Humiliation? Regret? None, she just felt uncomfortable because she always met stubborn men.

One loves a woman who died, and the other, even at the risk of becoming the enemy of the whole of Europe, will definitely want a piece of land that is only desolate and barren except for snowy mountains and glaciers.

She remembered that in the 21st century there were still cable cars leading to the tops of those snow-capped mountains, so she didn’t understand whether it would make sense for a country that had signed a peace treaty with France to start "fine-tuning" the peace treaty for the sake of a mountain?

"Although we didn't have to endure hunger like we did when we first crossed the Alps, it was extremely difficult to climb Mount Saint Bernard." Napoleon whispered in her ear, "Dig in Shushan Mountain."

It was Marmont's idea to make a hole into a sled to transport the cannon. When we got to extremely difficult and dangerous places, we would beat the military drum, which is the sound of the charging drum during the battle. We used this method to cross the cliffs and mountain streams.

.”

He hugged Georgiana and said, "Do you understand?"

"Just like the cavalry, this is a man's romance." She sobbed.

"No, this is not romantic." Napoleon thought about it and said, "That mountain is our immortal witness."

She looked at him confused.

The Alps are the youngest mountain ranges on earth. Perhaps after earthquakes and other natural causes, they will change the landscape in tens of thousands of years, provided that humans still exist at that time.

That mountain is not immortal, and humans are not immortal either. History will be forgotten by people after hundreds of years. What is the immortality he refers to?

He looked at her and smiled.

"Let's go and see your gift."

She was held by his hand and left.

In the hall on the first floor, there is a lamb with a big bow tied on it.

This sheep is exactly the same as Shaun the Sheep in the British animation, with a snow-white body and a black face. It looks very cute.

This is the black-nosed sheep, a specialty of Valais. Georgiana had seen it at the market, but she suddenly thought it was scary.

"Do you like it?" Leon asked.

Georgiana shook her head and hugged his arm tightly.

"Where did your courage go when you faced me?"

Sean was the only thin one among the fat sheep. Perhaps because of this, he was not selected by the farmer and was slaughtered.

She can think in dark directions even in children's animations like that. What's wrong with her thinking?

"Look at me." Leon held her face and asked her to look into his eyes. "During the Battle of Montenotte, I told those children that they fought for those barren mountains, but those rocky mountains

It is of no benefit to the motherland, but their glory is left there. Do you remember what I told you, what do soldiers ask for?"

She nodded "Glory, decency and reward."

"Good girl." He said with relief, "If for my personal reputation, world peace has been achieved, I will not get involved in political affairs at this time, but I have to do this."

"All Europe can't stop you," she whispered.

"You almost did it." He smiled and said, "I want to build that bank you mentioned, and I will be able to deposit it in it in the future."

She wasn't stupid enough to say something stupid like "You won't die."

“Do you think the Swiss would be happy if they lost the Valais and gained the Golden Mountain?”

Georgiana shook her head.

"Don't mess with this issue." He said gently, "You are still a woman after all."
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