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"Napoleon III, as the emperor of a country, was captured by his opponents. This is a huge shame for the great French Empire. In the face of such a humiliated monarch of the French Empire, how can we recognize him as ours? To be treated by the monarch of the country, for this reason, I represent Marseille, but also on behalf of the Rhône Estuary no longer recognize the royal status of the Poonaparte family, and no longer recognize Napoleon III as our monarch of the Rhône Estuary." July Revolution of 830 The Bourbon Restoration Dynasty was overthrown, Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, was declared king, and the financial bourgeoisie took power.

On December 1, 1869, in 1830, he assisted Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, to overthrow the Bourbon Restoration Dynasty, a descendant of Napoleon I, and supported the establishment of France's former cabinet ministers (1832) and former prime ministers ( 1834-1836) and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (1840), current member of the Constituent Assembly, member of the National Assembly Adolphe Thiers, in his hometown - Marseille in the south of the French Empire, on the grounds of the defeat of Napoleon III, announced that he would no longer recognize it The monarchy of Napoleon III.

As soon as Adolphe Thiers' declaration came out, not only the south of France, but the whole of Europe was shocked.

Even William I and Bismarck in Berlin were stunned.

The French Emperor Napoleon III in his hands was not recognized by a French province?

Well, it's just one.

Just as they were thinking this way, the same news from France reached Berlin one after another, making William I and Bismarck unable to sit still.

On December 2, 1869, the entire southern part of the French Empire seemed to have responded to the call of Adolf Thiers, raising the flag of rebellion, and scrambled to announce that it would no longer recognize the emperor's reign of Napoleon III.

At the same time, on December 3, 1869, a coup d'état took place in Paris, the French Empire, and the Second French Empire was almost overthrown. Fortunately, with the full help of Prime Minister Charles, the leader of the royalist forces, Queen Eugenie and Algeria who were sent back to Paris ahead of schedule by Napoleon III The king, who was also Crown Prince Louis, kept Paris and the entire Western French Empire.

When Napoleon III fell into the hands of Prussia, he seemed to be a hot potato.

London, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, etc. have issued appeals, asking Prussia to exercise restraint and not let the situation of the French Empire further develop and deteriorate. At the same time, they also called for restraint within the French Empire.

However, their appeal was not accepted in France.

In the north, the regent of Queen Eugenie was introduced, the Prince of Algeria (Crown Prince Louis) was in power, and the model of Prime Minister Charles was in progress.

The north and west of Saint-Quentin-Paris-Bourges-Orleans-Châteauroux-Poitiers-Niort-La Rochelle became the basic territory of the Second French Empire supported by the royalist forces.

In the case of Napoleon III's near-fall, the French in the south and the members who occupy the majority of the National Assembly have demanded the implementation of a constitutional monarchy, so there are currently two heirs to the throne in the south.

The Orthodox tended to support Henry, a descendant of Charles X, who was ok, while the Orleanists supported Louis-Philippe, a descendant of the former King Louis-Philippe, as his successor.

The two factions were evenly matched. At this time, the bourgeois republican faction represented by Adolphe Thiers showed its strength and demanded that the bourgeoisie-class share the power of French rule.

Finally, after the respective concessions of the three parties, under the stunned eyes of all European forces, on December 6, 1869,

Adolphe Thiers announced in Lyon the establishment of the overthrow of the Second French Empire and the establishment of the French Third Republic, ruling the original France south of Chalon-Châteauroux-Poitiers-Niort-La Rochelle The southern part of the empire is composed of territories, and at the same time, the rulers are the bourgeois republicans and the royalists to form a national defense government.

At the same time Adolphe Thiers was elected the first president of the government.

At the new presidential palace in Lyon, Adolphe Thiers announced the recruitment of 300,000 regular troops to guard the territorial security of the Third Republic of France in the south. President Adolphe Thiers also appealed to William I and Bismarck for armistice negotiations.

Said that the French Third Republic is willing to negotiate the demarcation between the two countries in the northeastern border (next to western Switzerland) in the Chalon region, and said that it is willing to cooperate with Prussia to deal with the French Second Empire regime in the north.

How could the Second French Empire be split into two countries?

No one thought that it would develop like this.

What was even more unexpected was that Adolphe Thiers, the president of the French Third Republic, was so cunning. Before the countries could react, he had already used the recognition of the territory occupied by Prussia (north of Chalon) as a bait. Let Prussia recognize their legitimacy.

At the same time, before December 10, 1869, Adolf Thiers also sent letters to the British Empire, Austria-Hungary Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Tsarist Russia Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Greece. The kingdom and even the Commonwealth of Millikin have issued requests for countries to recognize the legitimacy of the establishment of the country's regime.

Therefore, on the desks of kings and prime ministers of various countries, there is a telegram with the logo of the French Third Republic, President Adolf.

British Empire, London, inside Buckingham Palace.

Queen Victoria was very troubled at this time.

The mess of the French Empire made her very passive.

"A half month ago, who could have predicted that either Napoleon III would be overthrown and someone else would take his place, or the republic would send someone to power, and we would need to face a new U.S., while Prussia would become the continental hegemon of Central and Western Europe. .

But now look at it, it has become the French Empire ruled from north to south.

What should we do now? And what is the intelligence organization of the British Empire doing, such a big thing in the south of France, that we have been kept in the dark for so long and have not found anything abnormal, this is a huge dereliction of duty.”

Faced with the menopause of Queen Victoria in Israel, Prime Minister Disraeli could only bite the bullet and answer.

"In fact, not only us, but even Bismarck of Prussia and the others were fooled"

Seeing Queen Victoria's dissatisfied eyes shot, Disraeli understood that this was dissatisfaction with his shirk, so he changed his tone: "Your Majesty, the current splitting of the French Empire into two is actually not a bad thing for us."

"I know what you mean, but at present, under the fierce rise of Prussia, the French Empire has been severely weakened by Napoleon III. At this time, if it is split into two, Prime Minister, do you think it can stop the millions of Prussia's army? ?"

Disraeli said: "I think Queen Eugenie at this time will definitely support the establishment of a more intimate relationship with the British Empire. As for the south, in order to check and balance Prussia, we can bring disaster to the east and burn the fire to the Kingdom of Italy. side"

Queen Victoria looked at Disraeli with satisfaction, as if waiting for him to speak in more detail.

Disraeli said: "Britain can take the opportunity to win over the nobles of the French Empire and become our allies within the French Empire. If Queen Eugenie agrees, then our British Empire will completely master the English Channel just around the corner."

Queen Victoria was heartbroken when she heard the words.

Disraeli followed: "Similarly, on the south side, we are not suitable to offend. In this case, we can guide the other party to make more contacts with Italy. Italy is weak in the Mediterranean at this time, and it happens to be with France. The southern forces form an alliance, and in this way, they can intimidate the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Prussia. It is also enough to form a check and balance against Spain, which has a bad relationship with us.”

"But where in Prussia?" asked Queen Victoria suspiciously.

Prime Minister Disraeli said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that the surrounding Prussia is not only the Netherlands and the French Empire, but the Tsarist Russia and Austria-Hungary Empires are extremely vigilant about this. We just chose to wait and see, now that Adolf Thiers is this The leaders of the South of France have made their move, we just need to follow the momentum”

Queen Victoria nodded: "So do it then"

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Madrid, Spain.

Isabella II was very worried at this time. She did not expect that the French Empire in the north, a dazed thing, would break apart into two countries. Her good sister, Queen Eugenie, became the Queen Regent of the north, while the south was the establishment of France. The Third Republic, which is very dangerous for the Spanish royal family~www.wuxiahere.com~.

Fortunately, it seems that because of the establishment of a new government in the south, Prussia has given up its attack on Paris, which has not caused the greatest pressure on northern France under the regency of Queen Eugenie. Otherwise, with the support of Prussia, maybe the southern French third. It is not impossible for the Republic to go north immediately.

Isabella II suddenly thought of a problem, that is, she has been in contact with William IV all the time. It seems to be a little mysterious recently. Recently, she gave up trying to win over Queen Eugenie. Is this a coincidence? still......

She couldn't help but have questions, and with this question in mind, she began to make people pay close attention to Holland's every move.

"Perhaps, what are the plans of William IV's Holland?"

As the saying goes, the mantis is in front of the oriole, and there is always that kind of existence in this world.

On December 11, 1869, William IV, who had returned to the Dutch capital Amsterdam for 10 days, made his first appearance in Rotterdam, the southern territory of the Netherlands.

There he received Queen Isabella II of Spain, and the two declared their support for the Second French Empire under the regency of Empress Eugenie, while demanding restraint from the government of Adolphe Thiers.

The day before, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom sent Crown Prince Edward to visit the Palace of Versailles in Paris to express condolences to Queen Eugenie and the Prince of Algeria (Crown Prince Louis), and announced that she would continue to support and maintain the security of the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean with the Second French Empire. Cooperate safely.

On the same day, London demanded that the Kingdom of Prussia give up its attack on Paris. London also announced that it had dispatched the Channel Fleet for a friendly visit to Boulogne, a port on the western coast of the Second French Empire.

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