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In the eyes of everyone, Olivier was unfortunate, but when Xiao Letian heard the news, he thought the old man was very lucky.
Isn't it the greatest luck to be able to get ashore before this sinking ship completely enters the water?
Especially since he was forced by the Queen to take the blame and resign, which later increased the sympathy of some people, which was good for his future life, especially his comeback.
But Olivier did not enter politics after he stepped down from power. After leaving Paris, he was disheartened and moved to Italy to write books and peacefully spent the war in France.
When the Third Republic was completely on track, he returned to China as a scholar, rejected invitations from his old friends to join politics, and remained indifferent and focused on learning throughout his life.
In his memoirs in his later years, he admitted that his political ideas back then were a complete failure!
At the end of the Second Empire, Olivier had been seeking a peaceful and moderate imperial reform measure. He led the officials and nobles who supported him, and used the strong popular voice for reform to force Napoleon III to release his power.
The Second Empire was a country with a dictatorship. The French Emperor dissolved the Parliament when he took office, and the power of the entire country was controlled by him alone.
Although the parliament was restored later, it still belonged to the Vase Parliament and could not influence the political situation at all!
Olivier himself was very opposed to major bloody operations like the Great Revolution. He believed that the process of directly overthrowing a regime and establishing a new one was too violent and would do too much harm to the country.
Therefore, he has always supported moderate reforms. Through his efforts, the power of the parliament has been enhanced, and some people in the real power departments of the government have begun to support him as prime minister.
Amending laws one by one and fighting for rights one by one, the ultimate goal is to hope that France will become a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom, and the prime minister will be equivalent to the prime minister.
In fact, he has already made some achievements. Between the French Emperor and the people, his cabinet has actually done a very good job!
With such acute social contradictions, the Emperor and the people were already in conflict. It was only thanks to Olivier's small reforms and new laws one by one that a lot of lubricating oil was dripped into such a contradictory society!
It was his efforts to win power from the French emperor that prevented the people from feeling despair. At the end of the empire, when thousands of horses were silent, in the darkness, the people were able to see a little hope and a little dawn!
It is this hope and dawn that keeps the people from going down the old path of large-scale rebellion!
If he was given time, maybe France would really become a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom, but it is a pity that the Franco-Prussian War interrupted all his efforts!
A war tore apart all the paint on the French Emperor's body, intensifying all the suppressed conflicts in the country. The dry wood met the fierce fire, leaving the prime minister completely unable to be saved!
In the end, he, a moderate prime minister, actually became a scapegoat. Under the attack of rotten eggs, he left Paris in dejection amidst the roar of curses. He could not even stay in the countryside anymore and went directly to emigrate to Italy.
In the first few years after he left office, he was filled with resentment against Prussia. He put the responsibility for all failures on Prussia. He believed that Bimarck and Xiao Letian had destroyed his political ideals.
Without them, he would have completed political reforms long ago and turned the empire into an enlightened country with a constitutional monarchy!
But as time went by and as his research deepened, in his later years, his views on the war had completely changed.
In his memoirs, he said with great regret that the failure of the Second Empire was actually within him. All my political ideals were actually very empty and had no possibility of success.
Class contradictions cannot be reconciled, and vested interests cannot give up their interests on their own. At the beginning, I could indeed snatch some benefits from those people and distribute them to the people, but that was just a temporary measure!
When the rights and interests I fight for are large enough to shake the foundation of those people, the vested interests will probably kill people to maintain everything in their hands!
Human nature is so greedy, and no one will give away what they have to others. Whether they are dignitaries or ordinary people, they will fight tooth and nail to protect their own interests.
Without the destruction of foreign wars, there would definitely be the chaos of civil wars. The revolutions in various European countries suddenly awakened Olivier, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed of his political naivety back then.
"The me back then! I am not as politically mature as the heads of state in the East. They have already understood the changes in the world in their thirties, but at my age, I am really living like a dog!"
Olivier, who suddenly woke up in his later years, also had several letters to Xiao Letian, and what was written in these letters is a secret sealed in history.
Queen Eugenie's actions were indeed ruthless. Such a large-scale move as overthrowing a cabinet really made the domestic opposition shine. You can feel it just by looking at the demonstrators in the Tuileries Garden. From the long-term garrison of more than 10,000 people, It dropped sharply to more than 4,000 people.
It can be seen that this time the strong man broke his wrist, it did have a positive significance!
But the crisis has not yet been resolved. If news of victory cannot be returned from the front line for a day, the crisis in Paris cannot be resolved for a day. The whole of France has turned its attention to Metz and the front line.
Not only Paris, but all the big cities in Europe were shocked at this moment. When The Times of London was the first to disclose the detailed process of the Battle of Volta and the Battle of Spicelin, the political and economic center of Europe felt as if its heart suddenly stopped, and the whole city was in a state of shock. Dumb.
Pubs, cafes, restaurants...all the places where people gather have lost their former liveliness. People hold newspapers one by one and read them letter by letter, for fear of missing every detail.
Some bosses even knew how to do business and even hung a huge map of France in their stores, and people even drew the marching routes of the Prussian and French sides on it.
People read the reports and then looked at the map. Among the crowd were senior intellectuals or retired military officers, who were giving some basic explanations to the people.
The more people understand the details of these two battles, the more terrifying they feel about Prussia!
"Oh God! We all guessed wrong before. We foolishly guessed that the French offensive line would reach all the way to the German city..."
"As a result, this group of incompetent French people couldn't even protect their own borders. They were defeated twice in a row and lost the land of two provinces!"
"How can Prussia be so good at fighting!"
"And the head of state of the Chinese ethnic group, who was as gentle and elegant as a scholar in London just now, suddenly turned into a member of the death squad that attacked the French Second Army a few months later?"
"It's so shocking. This person is so scary!"
After the initial calm, people shook their heads, sighed and talked, but at this moment someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.
"No! I forgot a big thing, oops..."
