Chapter 11: The Stock Market Crash Comes

No matter how hard life was, days had to be lived. Following the simple coronation ceremony, the first decree of Carlos was a major purge.

Now, there were not many good citizens left in the City of Paris. Those who had survived were not to be trifled with, and without an internal cleansing, His Majesty Carlos would not be able to sleep.

The main targets of the purge were naturally the remnants of the Revolutionary Government, including the lower and middle-level bureaucrats who had defected, and the thugs, hoodlums, and violent criminals who took advantage of the chaos in Paris.

"Governments flow like water—the officials are ironclad."

That no longer applied. There was a large group of nobility supporting the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty, and the high positions that were vacated were clearly not sufficient to distribute.