Make France Great Again

Since Princess Mathilde ordered the Bonapartists to stop all activities in the near future at the mansion in the Rue de Courcelle, all the Bonapartists in Paris have stopped moving. They are like a viper lurking in the dark waiting for the two A giant [proletariat and bourgeoisie] decide the winner.

After the two giants decide the winner, the Bonapartists will once again go out to capture the winner's fruit. At that time, a weak Paris will not be able to stop the Bonapartists' victory.

During the period when the Bonapartists were lurking, Princess Mathilde, as the interim leader of the Bonapartists, was also not idle. She kept her father Prince Jerome and Rouet closely watching the movements of the parliament, while fighting again and again. In the guise of literature, we have invited influential and prestigious writers such as Victor Hugo, Saint-Beuve, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Mérimée, and Ms. George Sand to hear more from their mouths. The news about Cavaignac, by the way, helped her brother Jerome Bonaparte to establish a good image in the literary world.

Due to the good image Bonaparte had established for himself in recent times and the beauty of Princess Mathilde, the invited Parisian literati did not reject Princess Mathilde's invitation, and they were invited to participate in Princess Mathilde's workshop. The Literary Salon was held, and the location of the salon was St. Gratien on the shore of Lake Enghien, which was Princess Mathilde's second residence in Paris, and was also her usual place to hold salons.

At 7:00 p.m. on June 27, the sun was setting in the west, and the deep sky was dotted with stars.

Under the guidance of the stars and moonlight, a dark black carriage slowly and leisurely walked to the Mathilde mansion and stopped.

Pushing open the car door, a lady in a white court dress and holding a fan made of ivory got out of the car.

When she walked to the gate of the mansion, the gate of the mansion slowly opened, and Princess Mathilde, also dressed in a blue dress with a string of pearls around her neck, appeared in front of the lady.

The lady looked at Princess Mathilde in front of her with astonishment, and then asked with a smile, "I'm not too late!"

"Ms. George Sand, you are the first one here!" Princess Mathilde enthusiastically took George Sand's arm and led George Sand into the door.

The two walked and chatted like a pair of good sisters who hadn't seen each other for a long time. The originally quiet mansion instantly became lively. If you listen carefully, you can hear bursts of laughter from the second floor outside the mansion.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was already the agreed 8 o'clock.

During the one hour period, the mansion that Saint Beuve, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas and others arrived in turn, the only one who was absent was Victor Hugo.

Seeing that Victor Hugo had exceeded the agreed deadline, Merimee, who was Hugo's "friend", decided to stand up and say half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Okay! Guys, we can start! Only God knows, rain How long does it take that procrastinator to come! Maybe he's reading his masterpiece right now at some lady's mansion!"

Everyone in the salon smiled, and they set their sights on Mathilde, the organizer of the salon.

At this moment, Mathilde, who was sitting with George Sand, glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, then got up and nodded.

The Literary Salon officially begins.

Saint-Bouf first made a sharp comment on the recent news that appeared in the Paris newspapers, which attracted everyone present to participate in it, even Mathilde couldn't help but participate in it.

Although she is the organizer of this salon, her literary level and attainments are obviously far inferior to those of the literati present, so that she made some inappropriate jokes during the commenting process.

However, everyone present knew Mathilde's level, and they did not embarrass Mathilde.

Even Saint-Beuve, who is known as the "serpent" in the commentary circle in Paris, smiled slightly, and the little mistakes of the beautiful lady will always be forgiven by people.

In the salon, St. Beuf made a lot of complaints about the number of words in Balzac's water, calling it "I can't wait to put a punctuation mark on every word." Balzac just smiled, of course, St. After Zac "got into the money eye", he praised Balzac again.

[PS: Some well-known literati in Paris charge for their manuscripts by line. 】

The whole of France, and even the whole of Europe, did not think about Balzac's human-shaped codewriter. It can be said that the newspapers really love and hate Balzac.

What I love is his talent, and what I hate is his style of writing in a few words.

The atmosphere of the salon became more and more climax with the passage of time.

Just when the atmosphere was about to reach its climax, the servant in charge of guarding the gate informed Princess Mathilde of the arrival of "Victor Hugo".

"Gentlemen and ladies, our protagonist is coming!" Mathilde said lightly with her hands.

Everyone turned their attention to the door of the living room~www.readwn.com~Victor Hugo pushed the door open and came in slowly.

Lost friend Merimi was the first to applaud, and the rest of the people also cheered and applauded.

Victor Hugo, whose face was exhausted, heard continuous applause before he could apologize. He looked at everyone present suspiciously.

"My protagonist is here!" Merimi said to Victor Hugo in a funny tone.

"Merime, you..." Victor Hugo looked helplessly at this old friend who was making a fuss. He walked slowly to Balzac's side and sat down.

"Hugo, you look tired! What happened?" Balzac looked at Hugo beside him and asked curiously.

"Alas!" Victor Hugo sighed. He first apologized for not being able to keep the time, and also explained his reasons to everyone.

It turns out that since the order of the National Assembly to suspend the ruling committee and appoint Cavaignac as dictator, Lamartine, in order to prevent the overreaction of the soldiers and workers in Paris, took his romantic friend Victor Hugo to the suburbs of Paris to try Convince those workers to lay down their arms.

Fighting the government with their crude weapons is unlikely to succeed.

"Did you succeed?" Mathilde asked.

"No... Those workers obviously won't listen to us. He treats us as lackeys of the government! Lamartine and I were kicked out!" Victor Hugo shook his head and said in disappointment.

"God! It seems that a massacre is inevitable?" George Sand covered his slightly open lips with a fan.

"I'm afraid so! We may be lucky enough to see a massacre! Half the republic kills the other half!"

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