Chapter 1149 The Story of Paris (2)

According to statistics from France in 2004, France has a total population of 62 million, the Paris region has a population of 10 million, and the urban area has a population of 2.2 million. It is the first French city and one of the world's most famous super cities. One.

This number does not include illegal immigrants, tourists, and floating population. Although the population of 1927 was not checked, the current data is used to reverse it. If Grindelwald’s plan to destroy Paris and burn Paris was successful, one-sixth of the French Of the population will die as a result, it will be a disaster of the century.

  Fortunately, Nick LeMay and Newt Scamander stopped it. The Muggle newspaper explained that the fire was a hotel fire. Although it did not cause the scale of the London fire, it still made Parisians a false alarm.

  It is Pomona’s habit to go to the library wherever he goes. Before going to the former residence of Nick Lemay, Pomona and Severus, who changed their clothes, went to the French National Library by the Seine.

  Like this super city, this super library is also super large. Its predecessor was the King Charles V’s Library, which was built specifically for the collection of royal collections.

  After years of expansion, there are not only local French books, but also books that Napoleon snatched from Italy, as well as some art treasures of the Old Summer Palace.

Pomona has no interest in appreciating Manchu palaces. There is Ludovico Sforza in the west and Wu Sangui in the east. If he hadn't put the Manchus into the pass, and with the productivity of the nomads, could they break the Great Wall? The line of defense is still a problem.

  There are also many newspapers archived in the National Library. Pomona flipped through the newspapers of the Paris Commune Movement in 1871.

  On July 14, 1870, the Franco-Prussian War broke out, but France has been defeated in succession since the beginning of the war. On September 2, French Emperor Napoleon III led nearly 100,000 French troops to surrender.

   After the news reached Paris, it caused the anger of the Paris people. Two days later, on September 4, the revolution broke out in Paris, and the French Third Republic and the French Second Empire established by the big bourgeoisie perished.

  However, the French revolution did not prevent the Prussians from advancing directly.

In 1871, King William I of Prussia was crowned emperor at the Palace of Versailles and established the German Empire. The French bourgeoisie requested a truce. On February 26, the two countries signed a contract at Versailles. This war allowed the Kingdom of Prussia to complete German reunification and replaced it. France became the overlord of the European continent.

  The Kingdom of Prussia inherited from the Teutonic Knights and has always been known for its strict discipline and high education quality.

After the outbreak of the French Revolution, Prussia joined the anti-French alliance, but was defeated by the French army led by the "Archangel" Saint Angust, and later by Napoleon, ceding all the territories west of the Elbe. 130 million francs in compensation.

After successive defeats, Prussia was determined to reform. During the Franco-Prussian War, Bismarck, who was called the "Iron Prime Minister" by later generations, was the Prime Minister of Prussia. On March 26, 1871, he wrote a letter to the Strasbourg Chamber of Commerce. It was later published in the "Cologne Daily":

  To representatives of the Chamber of Commerce in Strasbourg:

  In response to the letter you sent me yesterday, I am now honored to make an oral promise to you and confirm it in writing. I will submit a bill to the Federal Parliament and the Reichstag requiring a resolution to compensate the residents of the "German" Alsace and Lorraine regions for their losses during the war.

  The calculation, basis and scope of compensation and interest are the same as similar losses suffered by German residents.

  March 26, in Berlin

  Federal Chancellor Bismarck

The newspaper of the Paris Commune cited this article on April 7.

  Alsace-Lorraine was the territory of the Holy Roman Empire before the 17th century, and the local residents spoke German.

During the Thirty Years’ War, France seized this land from the Habsburgs. About 230 years later, after the Franco-Prussian War ended, France ceded the land to Germany.

  On April 1, the stenographer of the German parliament forwarded Bismarck's speech on German-French relations to French newspapers.

"... The dividing line is difficult to determine. French people know better than foreigners how to determine it. The emperor and the government will not interfere in France's internal affairs in the past, present and future. I believe that the people of this great neighboring country can control themselves. Future destiny."

  The Paris Commune did not rule the whole of France, they only occupied Paris, but their influence was expanding.

  In Balzac’s writings, there is a Zhu’an party, which is generally considered to be royalist, in addition to the Girondists, which represent the bourgeoisie.

   Signed the Treaty of Versailles in France. After being humiliated, they are still engaged in a civil war. The Paris Commune newspaper likened the Gironde to "spit out a devil who spit out Jonah." The Girondists and Zhuan factions compared the Paris Commune movement to organized robbery.

   There was a lot of noise on both sides, work stopped, school stopped, everyone was busy with political movement. The worst thing is that the Prussians don't care, and the French start their own civil war first.

The Girondists even announced that if the representative agency in Paris is harmed by the conspiracy, they will represent the Republic, subject Paris to retaliation from all of France, and remove it from the list of cities.

  From September 2, 1870, Napoleon III ordered the surrender, to September 19, Prudence soldiers came to the city for only 17 days.

  The emperor and the bourgeoisie surrendered, but the people of Paris did not. They formed the National Guard and kept Paris for four months.

  When being besieged, the most dangerous place is a place like a bakery.

  Everyone is worried about the food problem. The Paris Commune puts bread workers on night shifts to prevent people from stealing food, and to prevent the Prussians and surrenders from destroying the flour, and to disintegrate the resistance of the Paris people from within.

  This National Self-Defense Force composed of the working class has 60 battalions, each with 1,500 personnel, replacing the Paris Standing Army as the only armed force to protect Paris.

The newspapers of the Paris Commune said to their compatriots: "Hey, the famous Duroc, the heroic commander, you have never fought tenaciously with the Prussians. They taught you the effective shooting of cannons. But you have never hit them with a cannon, you keep the cannon to hit us! Ah! The defeated suffer!"

These standing army cannons were made by ordinary workers. In the 19th century, the Paris area was an important manufacturing center in France. Before the German army entered Paris, these ordinary workers assisted the National Guard in trying to move a large number of cannons away from the German army’s only way. , Keep them in a safe place.

  If the “government army” intends to use cannons to level Paris, the National Guard can also use cannons to fight back. The Germans do not mix in this muddy water, and the sky full of shells does not have eyes, which can tell who is French and who is German.

  Although the two countries signed the contract in Versailles, the real peace treaty still takes effect in Frankfurt.

Eighteen years later, 1889 was the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. At the same time, the London Universal Exposition in 1851 achieved unprecedented success. France also wanted to build an exposition building beyond the "Crystal Palace", hoping to build a monument that could represent France's honor.

Famous people such as Maupassant and Dumas signed a protest letter against the construction of the Eiffel Tower. They believed that the tower was like a huge black chimney, towering over Paris. This ugly pillar would leave this ancient city disgusting. The shadow of concealed the brilliance of Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe.

  There are also “experts” who believe that the lights of the tower will kill all the fish in the Seine, and a mathematics professor predicts that the tower will collapse halfway through.

  All in all, the project started and was successfully constructed. It has become a famous landmark in Paris.

  The Eiffel Tower is like someone finds an ugly partner. At first, it looks ugly. After seeing the habit, you can find good things in him or her, and the more you look at it, the more pleasing to the eye.

  The romantic Frenchman gave her the nickname "Iron Lady", it seems that it is not so unbearable to think of it as a girl.

   "Merlin's beard." Pomona pulled on the sleeve of Severus's shirt. He had taken off his cumbersome black clothes at the moment and changed into a white shirt. It didn't look that hot anymore.

   "What are you doing?"

  "The newspaper of 1871." Pomona showed him the newspaper clippings she had read, "Come to see how people quarreled in the 19th century."

   "I don't understand French." Severus glanced at the newspaper and said.

"What are you looking at?"

"Paris' anecdote." He smiled weirdly. "During the Revolution, no matter how the government on the ground was changed, the priests in the ground were still sorting out the bones of the residents who died of the plague. These bones were used as materials for artistic creation. It was forgotten until someone gave a concert in the catacombs."

  Pomona took the book, and there was a photo on the page that opened. There was a lamp in front of a wall full of broken bones, and it seemed as if it could go out at any time.

  According to the introduction in the book, this kind of brazier is not used for some kind of religious ceremony, but for testing the oxygen concentration in the tunnel. Once the fire is extinguished, it means that the oxygen in it is lacking and everyone must return to the ground immediately.

   is like a ghost blowing out the light.

   Pomona couldn't help but shudder, and threw the eerie book back to him.

  "Any introduction about Nick LeMay?" Pomona asked.

   "Nick LeMay lived at 3 Montmorency Street West when he was alive, which is now a restaurant."

   "But his real address is not there, right?" Pomona smiled helplessly.

"He did live in Rue Montmorency, but it was not the current number 3. The first house numbers in Paris were obtained on September 28, 1728, when Nick Le May had already hidden the house he lived in. Severus said with a smile. "He was'dead' in 1391. After two hundred years, everyone who had known him died, so he moved back to his previous residence. Those built in the 14th century The house is still there, and it has not been demolished because of Napoleon and Osman’s plans. When the Revolution broke out, everyone was panicked, so he took this opportunity to hide the house."

   "How do you know more than me." Pomona said with jealousy.

"He left his legacy to me, but didn't leave his'treasure' to me." Severus said indifferently, and suddenly shot to death a spider crawling across the table with the book in his hand. "I In his eyes it will always be a "crippled"."

   "Let's go shopping elsewhere." She took his hand and said, "I want to walk along the Seine."

  He did not say anything.

   "Then I will go to other bookshelves first." She stood up.

  Severus smiled barely, then looked down at the book.

  Pomona left the reading room.

  She felt that Severus should want to stay alone for a while at this time.

  Furthermore, she really didn't visit the French National Library. God knows what "secrets" are still hidden in it.

  　 For the content of the newspaper in this chapter, you can refer to the public edition of the Paris Commune Bulletin, April 7, 1871

  　　

  　

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