Life of Being a Crown Prince in France - Chapter 1229: 1134

Chapter 1229: Chapter 1134

In the command post of the Allied Forces security organization, General Onorato di Giva, the chief commander of the Sardinian Army, looked at the order document in his hand, and after a long time, reluctantly said: “Isn’t this taking too long?

“Perhaps I should return and report to His Majesty the King…”

The French officer in front of him smiled and said: “Please rest assured, the General Staff has already obtained the approval of His Majesty Emanuele IV. I believe his courier will soon arrive in Ancona.”

This officer was an official from the General Staff of the Mediterranean Security Organization.

Just now, he delivered the General Staff’s order to General Giva—that in order to prevent Naples from launching a retaliation and to ensure that they strictly adhere to the ceasefire agreement, the security organization decided to station troops in Ancona on a rotating basis.

Ancona is a city adjacent to the west side of Abruzzo, only five or six days’ journey away from the latter.

And the Sardinian Army was honored to be assigned the first defense mission. They would be stationed here for a year, to be replaced by the Modena troops afterward.

Indeed, Joseph did not yet understand the driving force behind this Northern Italy nationalist incident, Sardinia.

Firstly, Sardinia would definitely claim that it was a frame-up by the Young Italy organization, and since this era didn’t have recording devices, you really couldn’t produce solid evidence.

Secondly, even if the Sardinian Royal Family were pressed to admit participation in the matter, upon deeper investigation it wasn’t a grave offense, the harshest punishment being Emanuele IV declaring self-imposed exile and letting his brother succeed as king.

This was hardly painful for Sardinia.

Yet Joseph was prepared to harshly punish Sardinia, the double-dealer, at least by breaking it into two or three countries.

But at present, there was no direct excuse to take action.

Therefore, Joseph ordered Lavallette not to act on the top echelon of the Young Italy organization for the time being, and even for the arrested Neapolitans, there was no interrogation about their backers.

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Carlo Emanuele Ferdinando Maria was born in Turin as the eldest son of King Vittorio Amedeo III of Sardinia and Princess Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain. From the day he was born, Carlo Emanuele started using the title “Prince of Piedmont” until he succeeded to the Sardinian throne in 1796. In 1775, Carlo Emanuele married the daughter of the French Crown Prince Louis and the Crown Princess Maria Josepha, Marie Clotilde, the sister of King Louis XVI of France. Although it was a political marriage, the couple was very affectionate. However, they did not have any offspring. In October 1796, after his father’s death, Carlo Emanuele succeeded to the Sardinian throne. Carlo Emanuele’s dominion was not limited to the island of Sardinia; he also owned strategically important territories in Northwest Italy, including the entire Piedmont. After ascending the throne, Carlo Emanuele was forced to sign the Treaty of Paris 1796 with the French Republic, granting the French Army passage rights in Piedmont. On December 6, 1798, Barthélémy Catherine Joubert led the French Army to capture Turin, forcing Carlo Emanuele to abandon all his territories on the Italian mainland and retreat to the island of Sardinia, where the French Army could not easily reach. The following year, he attempted to reclaim Piedmont but failed. He and his wife resided in Rome and also lived as guests of the Colonna family in Naples for a period. On March 7, 1802, Carlo Emanuele’s wife Marie Clotilde passed away. On June 4, 1802, beset by the pain of losing his wife, Carlo Emanuele decided to abdicate in favor of his brother Victor Emmanuel I. Carlo Emanuele retained the title of king. He lived in Rome and the nearby town of Frascati. In Frascati, Carlo Emanuele became a frequent guest of his cousin, the last member of the Stuart Dynasty—Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart. Carlo Emanuele’s grandfather, Carlo Emanuele III, was the grandson of Henrietta Anne Stuart, daughter of Charlie I, while Henry Benedict Stuart was the great-grandson of Charlie I. When Henry Benedict Stuart passed away in 1807, Carlo Emanuele was recognized by the Jacobites as the most qualified heir to the British throne from King Charlie I. However, there was no document proving that Carlo Emanuele ever attempted to publicly claim the thrones of England or Scotland. In fact, in 1815, at the age of sixty-four, Carlo Emanuele made solemn vows in the presence of Jesuits. Although he was never ordained as a priest, he spent the rest of his life at the Jesuit novitiate in Rome. On October 6, 1819, Carlo Emanuele died in the Colonna Palace in Rome. He was buried in the Quirinale Saint Andrew’s Church.

Vittorio was the second son of Vittorio Amedeo III and Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, the great-grandson of Victor Amadeus II, and grandson of Philip V, King of Spain, and Elisabetta Farnese. At birth, he was titled Duke of Aosta. From 1792 to 1796, his father, Vittorio Amedeo III of Aosta, actively engaged in combat against the forces of the French Revolution but was defeated, forced to negotiate peace. Shortly thereafter, Vittorio passed away, succeeded by his eldest son Charles Emmanuel IV. Charles and his family were forced to retreat to the island of Sardinia, the only remaining territory not occupied by France. Charles lacked the inclination to govern Sardinia, while the queen resided in Naples and Rome until her death in 1802, prompting the childless Charles to abdicate. On June 4 of that year, Aosta ascended the throne as Victor Emmanuel I. For the next twelve years, he ruled Sardinia from Cagliari, forming a gendarmerie team as part of the Italian Army. In 1814, Victor returned to Turin, as the Vienna Conference had restored territories originally belonging to the Genoa Republic to Sardinia, becoming naval bases for Sardinia. Victor abolished all freedoms guaranteed under the French Civil Code, reinstated oppressive rule, refused constitutional concessions, empowered the Church with these mandates, and renewed persecution of Jews and the Waldensians. In 1819, upon the death of his abdicated brother Charles, Victor became the Jacobite claimant to the British throne as ‘Victor I’, although neither brother openly sought the British throne. Upon Victor’s death, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, wrote to George Canning, suggesting Britain should hold a public memorial service, as many Britons considered Victor their legitimate king.