The Crescent of the Sultan

Selim had heard about the turmoil in Paris.

The Sultan could conclude that Louis XVI would soon die.

This could not help but make Selim sneer at Leopold II. He even treated his own sister in this way. No wonder he only lived for a few years and his life was shortened.

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

A descendant of Louis IX, although he was severely beaten by Saladin during the Crusades.

But at least others are indeed pious. How many European kings can enjoy the honor of Saint Louis?

For example, everyone knows what the "beautiful man" Philip IV did to the Holy See.

In order to support France's need to fight against Britain, the church clergy were taxed, and those who did not pay were directly taken.

In 1296, the forced Pope Boniface VIII issued the "Ecclesiastical Bull" stating that the secular monarch had no right to exercise power over the church and clergy.

Compared to Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV who knelt before the Pope at the Humiliation of Canossa.

King Philip of France responded tit-for-tat and directly banned French currency from leaving the country.

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

This was not the limit of the French king. Two years later, Philip IV sent people to invade the Pope's residence and humiliated and beat Boniface. The Pope did not know whether it was old or too weak, but he left in a few days. See God.

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

Under Philip's oppression, a French bishop became pope, Clement V.

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

At the same time, the pope agreed that the French king had the right to tax the church and clergy, disbanded the Knights Templar, which owned a large amount of property, and issued an encyclical recognizing that secular kingdoms were established directly by God, and that the French were like the Israelites in the Old Testament. All the same, they are God’s chosen people.

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

However, Philip was also the limit of the French king. Both Charles VIII and Louis XII only went to Rome to have tea with the Pope.

These are the descendants of Saint Louis. If it were not possible to check the genealogy, Selim would always feel that the French royal family had been replaced every time he read this history.

It is also possible that the breed has been changed, but the French chicken has not found out on its own.

So the Ottoman Empire was better. The sultan's subordinates were all eunuchs, so there was no need to worry about this kind of thing.

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

It's like a meeting of eunuchs - nonsense.

No refutation is allowed, Emperor Sai's bloodline is very pure.

Eyes return to Paris, in terms of Louis XVI's performance.

He seems to be more worried about his inability to obtain eternal salvation than the throne.

Was he not sure he could heartily accept Holy Communion from a priest who had sworn allegiance to the new constitution?

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

With faith in God, the devout Louis XVI wrote to Pope Pius VI seeking guidance, but received no reply.

Under the pressure of the National Constituent Assembly, Louis XVI reluctantly signed his name to 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, the only answer he might have expected: Absolutely no signatures.

It happened that this letter was seen by the servant who took care of the king's daily life.

Forget it.

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

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

However, Louis XVI did not seem to be aware of the possibility of leaking the secret. He was still considering the issue of piety.

Regarding the Pope's reply, Louis XVI followed his words.

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

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

When Pius VI's second letter was made public, it certainly inspired anti-clerical sentiment in Paris.

Widespread riots broke out again; a papal statue was burned in the gardens of the royal palace; a convent was broken into and nuns violated; a head was thrown into the carriage of the papal legate; a mob destroyed Saint-Sure Pease church door, forcing the organist to play the revolutionary song "Everything Will Be Alright."

They demanded that the king fire his newly hired confessor and denounced him as a traitor because he had flouted French law and received Holy Communion from a priest who was loyal to the pope rather than the state.

After the flight and the turmoil over the clergy, the French's tolerance for the king had dropped to the bottom line.

Madame Rolland, a Girondin representative who was an important member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Constituent Assembly, drafted a petition stating that Louis XVI's behavior had effectively disqualified him from being king.

Robespierre at the same time was even more radical. He directly stated in the petition that the French king's behavior was betraying the interests of the country, nation and 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 Girondins.

The Jacobins sent Georges Danton, a tall, bumpy-faced young revolutionary whose influence was rapidly increasing.

On the Girondin side, Madame Roland personally went into battle.

Incited by the left and the right, the public began to sign the petition. Many people just drew an "X" with a shaky stroke.

However, the atmosphere was too strong and the rally quickly got out of control.

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

Instead, the Vicomte Noyers led the National Guard to dispatch, but at the scene, they were violently attacked with stones by Paris citizens.

In order to restore order, the Vicomte Noailles ordered his men to fire several shots into the air, but the mob was a mob and they paid no attention to the shots.

In a panic, Vicomte Noaille ordered the self-defense troops to lower their guns and shoot at the crowd. About 50 demonstrators were shot and killed.

The situation was quickly brought under control, but Vicomte Noailles was never forgiven.

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

Robespierre, who was hiding in the dark, was keenly aware that his opportunity had come.

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

Please read it.

And the cover of Anna has been changed. My aesthetics are pretty good.