Chapter 59 Descendants of Saint Louis

Selim had heard about the unrest in Paris.

The Sultan could conclude that Louis XVI would die soon.

This made Selim sneer at Leopold II. He treated his own sister like this. No wonder he didn't live for many years. It was really short-lived.

As for piety, Selim would definitely sneer at the King of France.

Although he was a descendant of Louis IX, he was beaten up by Saladin during the Crusades.

But at least he was really pious. How many European kings could enjoy the honor of Saint Louis?

For example, everyone knew what the "handsome man" Philip IV did to the Holy See.

In order to support the needs of France's war against Britain, taxes were levied on church clergy, and those who did not pay were directly arrested.

This forced Pope Boniface VIII to issue the "Saint Bull" in 1296, declaring that secular monarchs had no right to exercise power over the church and clergy.

Compared to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who knelt before the Pope in the humiliation of Canossa.

King Philip of France responded tit for tat by directly prohibiting the export of French currency.

Later, Philip IV imprisoned the French archbishop for treason in 1301.

This was not the limit of the King of France. Two years later, Philip IV sent people to attack the Pope's residence and humiliated and beat Boniface. The Pope did not know whether he was old or too weak, and he went to see God in a few days.

This gave Philip IV a magical idea, and he immediately put pressure on the Holy See.

Under Philip's oppression, a French bishop became the Pope, namely Clement V.

Fearing opposition from the Italians, Clement V never went to the Vatican, and in 1309 he moved the Holy See to Avignon, close to the French border in northern Italy under French control.

At the same time, the Pope agreed that the King of France had the right to levy taxes on the church and clergy, disbanded the Knights Templar, which had a large amount of property, and issued an encyclical acknowledging that the secular kingdom was directly established by God, and that the French, like the Israelites in the Old Testament, were God's chosen people.

It can be said that the majesty accumulated by Gregory VII and Urban II was almost completely disgraced by Clement V and several subsequent popes controlled by France.

However, Philip was also the limit of the King of France. Later, whether it was Charles VIII or Louis XII, they only went to Rome and had tea with the Pope.

These are the descendants of Saint Louis. If it weren't for the genealogy, Selim would always feel that the French royal family had been replaced every time he read this history.

It may have been replaced, but the French chicken didn't find it out.

So the Ottoman Empire is still good. The Sultan's rear officials are all eunuchs, so there is no need to worry about this kind of thing.

You said that Selim II may not be the biological son of Suleiman the Magnificent.

It's just a meeting of eunuchs - nonsense.

No objection allowed, the blood of the Emperor Serge was pure.

Back to Paris, as for Louis XVI's performance.

Compared with the throne, he seemed to be more worried about his inability to obtain eternal salvation.

He was not sure whether he could sincerely accept the Eucharist held by the priests who swore allegiance to the new constitution?

He even suspected that doing so would endanger his immortal soul.

The devout Louis XVI, with his faith in God, wrote to Pope Pius VI for guidance, but received no reply.

Under the pressure of the National Constituent Assembly, Louis XVI reluctantly signed his name on the decree.

However, not long after this, that is, during the period when the King of France was captured and returned to Paris after escaping.

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The king received the long-awaited reply from the Pope, which was the only answer he could have expected: absolutely not to sign.

Unfortunately, the letter was seen by the servants who took care of the king's daily life.

That's fine.

Then, the Pope sent another letter, suspending the duties of all clergy who accepted the "Draft of the Civil Organization of the Clergy" and severely condemning the new proposal for the election of clergy.

This became the last nail in Louis XVI's coffin.

But Louis XVI did not seem to be aware of the possibility of leaks, and he was still thinking about the issue of piety.

Louis XVI obeyed the Pope's reply.

He immediately replaced the confessor who swore allegiance to the new constitution with a priest who had not sworn, but he was still deeply distressed.

When the servant found the letter again and handed it to the National Constituent Assembly, Roland decided to make it public.

When Pius VI's second letter was made public, it really aroused the anti-clerical sentiment of the Parisians.

Large-scale riots broke out again; in the gardens of the royal palace, the statue of the Pope was burned; the convent was invaded and the nuns were violated; a head was thrown into the carriage of the Vatican envoy; the mob smashed the door of the Church of Saint-Sulpice and forced the organist to play the revolutionary song "Everything will be fine".

They demanded that the king dismiss his newly hired confessor and condemned the king as a traitor because he defied French law and received communion from a priest who was loyal to the Pope rather than the country.

After the escape incident and the turmoil of theocracy, the French people's tolerance for the king had dropped to the bottom line.

Madame Roland, an important member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Constituent Assembly and a representative of the Girondists, drafted a petition stating that Louis XVI's behavior had actually made him lose the qualification to be king.

Robespierre, who was in the same period, was more radical. He directly stated in the petition that the French king's behavior was betraying the interests of the country, the nation and the people, and he needed to be punished.

On January 25, 1790, a large number of people gathered in the Champ de Mars to listen to the speeches of the Jacobins and the Girondins.

The Jacobins sent the tall and burly young revolutionary Georges Danton, whose influence was growing rapidly.

On the Girondins side, Madame Roland personally took the field.

Under the instigation of the left and the right, the public began to sign the petition, and many people just drew an "X" with a trembling brushstroke.

However, the overly strong atmosphere caused the rally to quickly get out of control.

Considering the psychology of the Parisians, Roland did not send Napoleon to deal with the matter.

Instead, he asked Viscount Noailles to lead the National Guard, but at the scene, they were attacked by fierce stones from the citizens of Paris.

In order to restore order, Viscount Noailles ordered his men to fire a few shots into the air, but the mob was a mob, and they did not notice the gunshots at all.

In a panic, Viscount Noailles ordered the guards to lower their guns and shoot at the crowd. About 50 demonstrators were shot dead.

The situation was quickly brought under control, but Viscount Noailles was never forgiven by the people.

Even Roland was hated by the people of Paris and was considered an accomplice of the king.

Robespierre, who was hiding in the dark, keenly realized that his chance had come.

This chapter is a bit late, I'm stuck, sorry.

Please read it again.

And Anna's cover has been changed, my aesthetic taste is not bad.