Farce
In Paris, the French were holding a funeral for Napoleon III. The dense crowds outside alone were enough to prove just how popular Napoleon III had been.
That day, French workers were collectively given a holiday. The capitalists had no choice but to comply—Napoleon III's title as the "Socialist Emperor" was no joke, and his influence among workers surpassed that of anyone else.
The spontaneous mourning activities organized by the public stood in stark contrast to the desolation of the original timeline. It truly was an irony.
Though many attended the funeral, there were few guests of real stature. The consequences of the Bonaparte Family's poor relations were displayed to the fullest here.
The royal families of Europe all seemed very busy. Other than those who depended on the French for their livelihood, the rest of the great nobles merely sent representatives; some could not even be bothered to send one.
Take the Habsburg Family, for example. Franz simply dispatched a count from a collateral branch to handle the matter. Even though the two nations were allies, it did nothing to change the fact that their imperial families could not stand the sight of one another.
The grudges involved were a muddled account that could not be sorted out anytime soon. It was not only the Habsburg Family—most European nobles were unfriendly toward the Bonaparte Family.
Nobles held grudges too. When Napoleon had swept across the European Continent, who knew how many people's rice bowls he had smashed? How could that debt possibly be written off?
If the Bonaparte Family had fallen into decline as well, everyone might have felt somewhat better. But the result was precisely the opposite. The Bonaparte Family remained glorious, and seeing this upstart flourish, people were too busy being jealous to come flatter them.