Make France Great Again

"Your Majesty, this is Princess Pauline von Metternich!"

Queen Augusta immediately introduced Jérôme Bonaparte.

"Hello, Your Majesty!" Pauline von Metternich curtsied to Jerome Bonaparte again, "It's an honor to meet you!"

"Hello, Miss Metternich!" After Jerome Bonaparte pondered for a moment, he spoke again: "Can I ask you something about the relationship between you and Prince Metternich..."

"My mother is the daughter of Prince Metternich, and my father is the Hungarian nobleman Count Morik Sandor!" Pauline von Metternich responded to Jerome Bonaparte gracefully.

"So, you are Prince Metternich's la petite-fille (granddaughter and granddaughter are the same word in French)." Jerome Bonaparte asked Pauline von Metternich.

"In a short time, I will call him le beau-père (father-in-law, father-in-law)!" Pauline von Metternich responded to Jérôme Bonaparte with a blank expression.

"Why?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked subconsciously.

Then, he immediately realized that the question he just asked was really a very stupid question.

"Your Majesty, I am engaged to my uncle Richard von Metternich!" Pauline von Metternich immediately explained to Jerome Bonaparte: "We are expected to get married next year!"

This old guy Metternich is really ridiculous. I really don’t know what he was thinking about! Jerome Bonaparte complained silently in his heart.

Although incest marriages are not uncommon among European aristocrats (Jérôme Bonaparte married his cousin Augusta, and it was hard to find a royal family willing to accept him of his kind), but things like this The phenomenon of direct and separated generations is still relatively rare.

In most cases, marriages are between cousins.

"Then congratulations!" Jerome Bonaparte said hypocritically to Pauline von Metternich: "Richard is an excellent young man. You will definitely be able to live happily with him!"

"Your Majesty, thank you for your blessings!" Pauline von Metternich responded to Jerome Bonaparte with a smile.

Later, Pauline von Metternich politely bid farewell to Jerome Bonaparte.

"You stay here with Augusta! I need to leave for a while!" Jerome Bonaparte stopped Pauline von Metternich from leaving and turned to look for the target along the edge of the dance floor.

Jerome Bonaparte, who had been lingering on the edge of the dance floor for a while, found Prince Metternich in a room next to the ballroom. At this time, he was sitting on the sofa chatting with old Marshal Radetzky.

Jerome Bonaparte slowly moved towards the direction of Metternich and Radetzky. When he was about to approach the two, Marshal Radetzky spotted Jerome Bonaparte and he spoke. He shouted to Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty!"

Prince Metternich, who was sitting on the sofa with his back to Jerome Bonaparte, immediately turned to look at Jerome Bonaparte after hearing Radetzky's call.

Marshal Radetzky and Prince Metternich hurriedly stood up to wait. Jérôme Bonaparte walked slowly in front of them and asked Radetzky and Prince Metternich with a smile: "Count Radetzky, Metternich." Prince Tene, why don’t you two go dance on the dance floor!”

"Your Majesty, I am already old!" Marshal Radetzky replied to Jérôme Bonaparte. "It is difficult for me to have the strength to dance again!"

"I see, old Marshal, you are not old at all!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Radetzky with a smile.

"I can't do it anymore! I'm really old!" Radetzki's weathered face showed a hint of sadness, "I'm 89 years old, and it's time to listen to the Lord's call at any time!"

"Old Marshal, don't say that!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to Radetzky: "In my opinion, you can live for at least more than 10 years!"

"10 years?" Radetzky smiled bitterly after hearing this, shook his head and responded, "How many people in this world can live to be 99 years old? Now I am just a dying candle! Just waiting for God to call at any time!

Besides, being able to live for such a long time! I am already satisfied!

There are only a handful of people who have experienced that era with me! "

"Old Marshal, no matter what, you must maintain an optimistic attitude! Lombardy and Venice still need you to govern!" Jerome Bonaparte encouraged Marshal Radetzki.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty!" Marshal Radetzki expressed his gratitude to Jerome Bonaparte, and then continued to ask: "The purpose of your coming here is not just to say this!"

"Of course not. In fact, I am here for Prince Metternich!" Jerome Bonaparte turned his eyes to Prince Metternich and said.

"Let's talk!" Marshal Radetzky made an invitation gesture, and then prepared to go elsewhere.

"No!" Jerome Bonaparte raised his hand to stop him, and then said to Metternich: "Prince Metternich, can you accompany me for a walk?"

"Of course, Your Majesty!" Prince Metternich nodded in response to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte and Prince Metternich walked to the door of the ballroom. Count Grenell, who was in charge of guarding the ballroom, looked at them with confusion, "Your Majesty Jerome, where are you going?" ?”

"Sir, do we still need to report to you where we are going?" Jerome Bonaparte asked with a frown.

As one of the palace administrators, Count Grenell had no choice but to look at Prince Metternich with pleading eyes.

Prince Metternich, who lived in the Tuileries Palace, naturally understood the reasons for Jérôme Bonaparte's dissatisfaction. The rules of the Tuileries Palace were far less numerous than those of the Hofburg Palace.

The only managers of the entire Tuileries Palace were Mokar and Vernia, so Jérôme Bonaparte, who could come and go freely in the Tuileries Palace, would resent this kind of thing.

"His Majesty said he wanted to go out for a walk!" Prince Metternich quickly gave Count Grenell a wink to tell him to be quiet.

The rigid Count Grenell still responded to Prince Metternich in a dogmatic manner, "Your Excellency, where are you going? I can send someone to protect you!"

"Mr. Metternich, are you ready to imprison me?" Jerome Bonaparte looked at Prince Metternich with a displeased expression.

Prince Metternich and Count Guenaire were immediately shocked when they heard Jérôme Bonaparte's words.

If the situation is allowed to develop, the relationship between the French Empire and the Austrian Empire may be destroyed.

"No! Your Majesty, I am not!" Count Genel hurriedly explained.

"Then don't get out of my way!" Jérôme Bonaparte lowered his voice and said to Count Grenell.

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Count Genel had to make way.

Jerome Bonaparte and Prince Metternich were able to leave. However, before leaving, Jerome Bonaparte specifically threatened, "By the way, don't spread the news of our departure! Otherwise, everything will happen." You bear the consequences yourself!"

"Yes! Your Majesty!" Count Gugnelle replied humbly to Jérôme Bonaparte.

After Prince Metternich and Jerome Bonaparte walked a long way out of the Hofburg Palace, Prince Metternich asked Jerome Bonaparte: "Your Majesty, what do you want from me?"

"Actually, it's nothing!" Jérôme Bonaparte said to Prince Metternich in a casual tone, "I heard that Queen Elizabeth was in the Hofburg Palace, and the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mother Sophie seemed not to be good. How harmonious!”

After hearing what Jerome Bonaparte said, Prince Metternich suddenly felt that he was about to get into trouble.

What's more important is that he can't shirk it at all!

"This is what Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth told you!" Prince Metternich asked Jerome Bonaparte.

"Don't care who told me, you just need to answer me yes or no!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Prince Metternich in a slightly stern tone.

"Yes!" Prince Metternich responded to Jérôme Bonaparte, "There are indeed some conflicts between Queen Elizabeth Yin and Queen Mother Sophie!"

"Yes!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and continued: "Has Queen Yin Elizabeth tried to find you?"

"That's right!" Prince Metternich responded to Jerome Bonaparte, "It will be difficult for me to help Her Majesty the Queen until she has given birth to an heir!"

"So you can't bear to watch an 18-year-old girl sink into depression day by day in the Hofburg Palace without doing anything!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Prince Metternich.

"Your Majesty, this is the inherent responsibility of being a queen!" Prince Metternich, who had already seen the storms and waves, no longer had empathy in his heart. He was like a ruthless political machine, calculating gains and losses.

“Bullshit responsibility!” Jérôme Bonaparte couldn’t help but uttered a curse word, “A group of smart-alecky guys formulated smart-aleck etiquette, and then a large group of people followed the etiquette requirements like fools!

What do you think their purpose is? "

Prince Metternich did not speak, he knew that nothing he could say now would solve the problem.

Because there was an emperor of the Bonaparte family standing in front of him. Decades ago, he tried to use the position of the Bonaparte family in France to persuade Emperor Napoleon (before the battle of Leipzig) to give up things that did not belong to France. (Commonwealth of Ireland, Kingdom of the Netherlands).

However, he failed, and Emperor Napoleon scolded him severely and drove him away.

From that time on, he understood that sometimes the Bonaparte family could not be persuaded by interests at all. Their impulse would make them do something in anticipation of the consequences, even if the thing itself was of no benefit to them.

This is also the most terrifying place for Bonaparte.

"Your Majesty, what do you want me to do?"