The gardens of the Tuileries Palace have become a sea of all negative emotions!
The plainly dressed woman knelt on the ground and cried loudly, "We are defeated, we are defeated, shame! How can we let the Prussians defeat us? What happened to the invincible Bonaparte family?"
"There is a traitor in the empire! The failure must be caused by the collusion between the nobles who don't know the country and the northern barbarians and the northern barbarians to betray the country! It must be like this..." The worker leaders stood on the wooden box and roared angrily, with hundreds of people below. Thousands of people followed him and shouted slogans.
The Republicans also spared no effort to jump up and down, "Reform! Only by reforming the state system can we save the situation! Let the emperor return power to the parliament and implement a comprehensive constitutional monarchy!"
"Amending the Constitution, we must restrain the imperial power!"
Most of these republicans are university professors, scholars and opposition politicians. Their reputation is also very high, and countless fans shout slogans to support them.
"Amend the constitution! Return the parliament!"
What's more, some directly shouted the slogan of restoring the republic. These radicals jumped up and down in the crowd, "Restore the republic! We don't need an emperor, we want to control the army ourselves!"
"Let the people's army fight against the Prussians. This is the only possibility of victory!"
In the noisy garden, there were already 50,000 to 60,000 people crowded by 12 noon. It was so dark that one could not see the end of the garden. The glass of the palace was buzzing with slogans.
Montauban could no longer sit still. He personally went to the front line and led the Guards to defend to the death. The cavalry lined up in a long queue to cut off the crowd and the palace. They even pulled out barbed wire at the intersection. The infantry behind them held rifles and bayonets. , shining brightly in the sun.
The scorching summer sun baked the whole city like an oven. Everyone was sweating profusely. Hundreds of people had fainted from heat stroke in the whole morning.
However, no matter how hot the weather was, it could not stop the patriotic enthusiasm of these people. They tore the buttons of their shirts and opened their arms, letting the smell of sweat fill the air.
Led by countless leaders, they chanted unified slogans!
"Severely punish the national traitors! Severely punish the national traitors!" They couldn't even name who the national traitors were!
"Restore the Republic! Restore the Republic!" These republicans have found a great opportunity!
"Long live the proletariat! Establish a proletarian regime! Long live!" the workers' leaders roared at the top of their lungs. They generated the loudest noise. The working class in Paris was the absolute main force in today's demonstrations.
The queen had already come out of her initial panic. She looked at everything below coldly and said calmly, "There is nothing to be afraid of, it's just a mess! Those workers' leftists and Republicans, including those who have no political goals, of nationalists…”
"Their demands are not unified. Although the commotion is fierce now, it will disperse after dark!"
The queen meant this to Thiers. The congressman who forced the palace never left!
After hearing the Queen's harsh words, he smiled faintly, "Your Highness the Queen, I'm afraid you really underestimated the strong will of the people this time..."
"Seriously, how many years has it been since France suffered a defeat? It has never been so miserable since Waterloo. The national sentiment is really unbearable!"
Thiers was right. After half a million people gathered in the Paris parade, the chaos was replaced by a strange order after passing through the hottest noon.
Half a million people took to the streets because of the news of the defeat, and the Tuileries Palace was the center of all the demonstrations. More than 30,000 people gathered in the garden at the moment, and the Champs Elysées behind them was actually crowded with 100,000 people. many.
It is difficult to achieve unity of opinion in a demonstration of this scale, but today it was strange. After one o'clock in the afternoon, the slogans on the street gradually became unified.
The speakers in the countless crowds suddenly changed their tone and began to speak more or less the same agitations!
"People of France! The first priority at the moment is to drive the invaders out of the country. Everything else can be considered in the long term!"
"People, our compatriots are bleeding, our women are being ravaged, and our children are dying miserably under the enemy's butcher's knife!"
"There is only one thing we have to do now, and that is to defeat the invaders!"
"I propose that the National Guard be formed immediately!"
"Citizens of Paris! Let us take up arms and defend our home!"
"Organize half a million National Guardsmen! Let the government provide us with guns, ammunition and serial numbers!"
"Sons and daughters of France! Let us fight to the last drop of blood! Five hundred thousand... build an army!"
The whole city was in a sensation. The exciting words "Jianjun" and "500,000" suddenly made everyone go crazy. It was as if they had found a solution to all problems, or a life-saving straw. Everyone shouted crazily. !
"Build an army! Build an army! Build an army..."
"Five hundred thousand! Five hundred thousand! Five hundred thousand..."
People raised their fists high above their heads. Every time they shouted in unison, the iron fists of half a million people wanted to pierce the sky. Gradually, there was no other sound in Paris. People gathered together and simply shouted slogans to exert pressure. !
"Build an army! Build an army! Establish a National Guard!"
"Conscription! Conscription! Conscription of half a million soldiers!"
Now Queen Eugenie could no longer stand. When half a million people stopped being chaotic and put pressure on the government with a unified voice, even emperors and generals could not resist such power.
The queen could see with her own eyes that the glass windows were vibrating rhythmically amidst the sound of slogans. She suddenly turned back to look at Thiers and gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, you republicans are actually united with the workers' leftists? What a snake and rat." nest!"
Thiers was not angry at all, he just lowered his head and said politely, "Dear Queen, at this moment we have no differences in factions..."
"At this moment we have only one unified identity...French!"
"At this moment, nation is more important than anything else!"
"Hahaha..." the queen laughed wildly, "Okay, okay, nation is more important than anything else?"
"What do you know? What do you know? You don't even know the current predicament of the empire, nor do you know the difficulties in the empire's finances, diplomacy, armaments, etc.!"
"You only know how to want...you want everything with your greedy appetite, but you have not made any achievements in solving the problem!"
"Can we win the war by forming an army of half a million people? If the untrained Inter Milan Self-Defense Force encounters the Prussian regular army, they will die!"
"Death, death, you are taking human life as a trifle! Even the veterans of the empire have been defeated. Do you still want workers and farmers to be used as cannon fodder?"
Listening to the Queen's scolding, Thiers was not angry, but the Queen smiled lightly: "Queen... I won't worry about this matter... I am willing to be cannon fodder, so what can I do?"
"Because they are patriotic..."
"You..." Queen Eugénie choked on Thiers' words and became silent!
