See you in the picture! Only now did Gan Bida understand what kind of medicine these two so-called old friends were selling in the gourd. There was no chance encounter at all, and all the meetings had been planned long ago.
The alliance Duval mentioned was actually the alliance of two important anti-imperialist factions in France at that time.
Xiao Letian once said when he was in Ryukyu, maybe in the eyes of officials of the Qing Dynasty, France is an invincible capitalist power, but in my eyes, France is just a shabby house that is in ruins. It looks tall and solid, but in fact, with just a light kick, the decay inside it can cause it to collapse.
Napoleon III's ruling foundation was not that solid at all. Due to years of militarism and his improper accession to the throne, his popular support rate was getting lower and lower.
Coupled with the French people's innate romantic revolutionary complex, this has led to the emergence of a large number of natural revolutionaries in this nation.
Those who opposed the imperial rule of Napoleon III were generally two groups of people. The first group was the republicans represented by Gambida.
Speaking of the French republic, it has a long history. It can be traced back to the Great Revolution, when Louis XVI beheaded, the Bastille was captured, and the new First French Republic was established! The romance of the French made all the kings of Europe tremble with fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte ended the short life of the First French Republic! Then came the First Empire, which the whole of France loved and hated.
Six anti-French alliances were organized across Europe, and they basically exhausted all their strength to pull Napoleon Bonaparte from the throne, and France entered the Second Republic.
But this regime did not last long. Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew successfully restored the empire and became the current Second Empire.
It is a pity that Napoleon's nephew did not go as far as his uncle. Although news of victories continued to come back to the outside world, it was a pity that those victories were nothing compared to the brilliant victories of his uncle. Comparison of fireflies!
In addition, these victories did not bring actual benefits to the people, nor did they achieve a series of reforms that improved the well-being of the domestic people. This allowed more French people to join the opposition, and the republican forces flourished.
Republicans have never given up their efforts. They have always had a huge mass base among the people. Many enlightened gentlemen, bankers, capitalists, and many new intellectuals and scholars are secretly working hard for the restoration of the republic.
It’s not that Napoleon III never thought about suppression, his cruel rule did kill many people, but he was helpless until the end of the killing, because the opposition was too powerful, and he couldn’t possibly kill all the smart brains of France. Cut off, so in the second half of his administration, it was basically compromise, compromise, balance and rebalancing.
Until 1869, Napoleon III even decided to amend the constitution and release a large amount of power to the people in exchange for the support of Republicans for his administration.
The emperor wanted to replace the modern imperial system with a British-style constitutional monarchy, but it was a pity that his little idea was seen through by these smart people at a glance.
Does an emperor who is reluctant to give up military power still dare to say that he wants to implement a constitutional monarchy? Is the constitution higher than the emperor or the emperor higher than the constitution? Napoleon III did not understand even this most basic principle, so naturally there was no need for reform.
Gambetta, a criminal who had been in prison, received a huge number of votes in the two parliamentary elections last year. This was due to the background of the times. The people had been resentful of the emperor for a long time, so the power of the republicans would naturally increase. The stronger.
It was not only the republicans who resisted Napoleon's imperial rule, but also a very famous force in history, which was the famous Paris Commune in later generations.
This is a group of true political leftists whose power comes entirely from the people at the bottom, from the working class. Their demands are more radical. They directly want to establish a democratic country with a proletarian dictatorship.
The main disseminator of this idea at that time was Blanqui, the master of Vallan and Duval!
This Blanqui is a legend. His life was a constant struggle, a desperate struggle, and he would continue to struggle until his death.
At the age of 19, he joined the secret activities of the Carbonari. At the age of 23, he participated in all the student sports available at the time. He was injured three times during the movement. These three wounds were almost his military medals. Two were stabbed by bayonets and one was penetrated by a bullet. This shows how radical and active this man was in the student movement at that time.
At the age of 29, he came into contact with utopian doctrine again. At the age of 30, he began to take up arms and participated in the Paris citizens' war against Charles X.
From the age of 30, Blanqui entered a long prison career. His life trajectory was very regular. After he was released from prison, he often gave public speeches on various occasions, wrote various articles, promoted his utopian ideas, and then encouraged workers to carry out revolution together.
And such illegal propaganda activities will naturally lead to arrests by the police and then to jail. This cycle repeated over and over again, and he spent almost two-thirds of his life in prison after the age of 30.
Of course, while he was out of prison, he also planned several famous uprisings. The most representative of these was the Paris Uprising of 1839.
It was not until 1865 that Blanqui secretly fled to Belgium for refuge. After that, it was not until the establishment of the Paris Commune that he returned to his native country.
This is a truly legendary figure who spent his whole life in revolutionary struggle, and like a burning torch, he sowed countless sparks in the boundless wasteland and brought out batches of people. A group of revolutionaries.
It can be said that all senior leaders in the entire Paris Commune movement grew up under the nourishment of his ideological system.
Even his group was called the Blanquists by Napoleon III. In the eyes of the emperor, they belonged to a very threatening political faction.
Of course Gambetta knew Blanqui. He had been in contact with Blanqui a long time ago and accepted some new ideas. But unfortunately, Gambetta was a pragmatic politician and he did not have much regard for utopianism. Too much interest, so we parted ways.
They never expected that when Gambit returned to politics, these utopians would actually find it again, and this time they would bring a more radical cooperation plan.
"Gampita, our old friend, unite with us, abandon all illusions about Napoleon III, organize the power of the working class, and let us use force to overthrow this decadent dynasty!"
"Have you not always dreamed of forming a Third Republic? You can rest assured that with the help of our working class, your dream will definitely come true."
"As long as we can work together, we can make the revolutionary charge clarion call ring throughout Paris, we can organize hundreds of thousands of new-style troops, and the red flag of change will be planted all over the city. France is destined to rise again!"
“If we can come together, there’s nothing we can’t do.”
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