For a long time, Paris, like other European cities, had imposed height restrictions on buildings. Just like Bern, which Pomona had visited, the tallest structure in the entire city was the church bell tower.
Georgiana stood before Saint-Sulpice Church, looking up at its roof. There was a device there, part of the Sharp system. In 1793, this very system had transmitted news of the Anti-French Coalition's movements from Lille to Paris. Saint-Just had been urgently dispatched to the Alsace front and successfully repelled the attack.
In 1794, Saint-Just returned to Paris, drafted and delivered the report calling for the purge of Danton's faction, and after Danton was executed, he headed north again and won another victory in Flanders.
Danton had originally supported the Reign of Terror, but by the end of 1793, he had begun to recognize the dangers of its expansion. He advocated leniency and became one of the "moderates."
France had once had an East India Company, but before coming to this world, she truly had not known how it had collapsed.
History said it had dissolved as early as 1769, yet like the Dutch East India Company, which dissolved in 1799, it had been taken over and managed by the government. It was reorganized in 1785 and officially went bankrupt in 1794. Danton, then a councillor of state, watched the French East India Company's shares fall without any intention of rescuing it. Instead, he joined in shorting it.
There was one prerequisite for short selling: when a stock price plunged, someone had to catch it. Jesse, the "Bear of Wall Street," had shorted Pacific Railroad Company stock after the San Francisco earthquake sent its price crashing down. After all, the American government still needed the railways to transport disaster-relief supplies. They would have to save it rather