Kapitel 754: Chapter 17, Diverting Disaster Southward

After the Near East war escalated fiercely, the French civil war also neared its end.

Since the United Kingdom had mediated the conflicts between the three major Protecting the King factions, the forces dragging their feet were greatly reduced, and the Monarchist faction gained an absolute advantage over the Revolutionary Party.

The scope of control of the Revolutionary Government was suppressed to a corner of Paris; although this was the essence of France, it could not withstand the ravages of war.

After Napoleon IV blockaded Paris, the isolated Paris Revolutionary Government gradually fell into a shortage of materials.

With a pile of factories but not enough industrial raw materials, even the timely emergency measures taken by the Paris Revolutionary Government to unify the distribution of materials were not enough to stave off depletion.