Paris, 1830.
Lothaire continued on his path to gain the popularity among the lower classes. The lower middle class was courted by his support to the National Guard and hinting to expand the franchise to include them and liberalise economical laws. The lower classes on the other hand had to be tackled in a different way. Lothaire had reckoned that in the Departments and countryside the real power resided among the landowners. Because they were the dominant powers in the area, and who the Ultras and Bourbons rested their power upon. Several men would be sent to the South-East of France to gain their support and to further antogonise the middle class in the region. However he believed the real power relied in Paris. The coutnryside might give the Orléanist greater political power and capital, but it was the capital of the nation that was the closest to the seat of power. The rulers of Paris needed to have the full confidence of the masses there in order to secure their rule over France.
In that respect Lothaire would extend the efforts in Paris to not only sway the upper borgouise and the lower middle class, but also the poor. The plans was quite simple. Several food and aid stations, modeled after what he had done during the Veterans League, was established in the poor districts of Paris. There several homeless persons was given shelter, starving families was given food and sick workers were given medical aid. Each of the stations would bear the name of Orléans or some central Orléanist politican. When poor men were given food they were reminded that it was the Duke of Orléans, or some other central Orléanist, who gave them it.
During these efforts several community houses were applied for and some had been constructed. It would serve for places where the poor could gather around and meet eachother. They would often be hosted by central Orléanists, such as Lothaire, and they would often remind them who made this all possible. Several "debates" were set up in these community halls (often just improvised tents on empty fields) between various Orléanists. They tend to remind them on stuff like "the indemnities served no other than the upper nobility. They only sought to enrichen themself while leaving the poor alone in the cold. Many have forsaken their holy duty to look after their own people, their own brothers and sisters. Only the Duke of Orléans and men like him give away great parts of their wealth to charity. To provide for housing as this or food for the poor. They give back to the people what they were granted quite clumsy by the Sully government. They truly represent the middle road".
Other efforts and debates also took place. Such as painting a difference between the extreme left and right. The extreme left claimed to represent the people, but in fact they only looked after themself. They bribed the people with promise of universial rights and so on, but it would only lead to the chaos of the Republic and Bonapartist-Ceasarism. They hadn't benefitted the poor, only a few. The same was said about absolutism, which obviouusly only looked after the few. The "juste milieu" was said to be what one should strive toward. That this was the true moderate way of ruling that didn't repress the poor through reactionism and ingorance or lure them with chaos and Ceasarism. Several more in depth debates took lace, but the real emphasis was that the Juste milieu would bring order and not chaos and true liberty to France, while the extrem left and extreme right in the end only looked after themself and abused the poor classes for their own ends. For did not many of the Ultras and Liberals alike ignore the plight of the poor during the famine, did they not only care about them until they thratened to put up the barricades? They went as far to make it look like those who really cared about them now followed the middle road led by the Duke of Orléans. Was it not they who had set up several shelters and food stations for those who suffer?
For the poor Lothaire also showed them various plans that they intended to hold fundraisers to help build theaters in the poorer districts. Afterall they were members of the Parisian society and the entertainment of the modern world should not only be limited to the middle and upper classes. They were given bread and circus, and reminded that it was th good hearted men of the "juste milieu" who did all this.
While Lothaire made these advances toward both the poor stratas and the lower middle class, he mostly let Laffitte and moderate figures have the reins in the Chamber of Deputies and among the many festivities aimed to gain the support from the middle and upper class of Paris. However Lothaire would mor frequently attend to the various universitites and colleges. There he would hold gust lectures and meet with other intellectuals. The guest lectures was mostly about the "juste milieu" and offered in depth analysis of what they coined "Democratism", "Ceasarism" and "Absolutism". In short they all led to chaos and oppression in the end, and the only real alternative was the happy medium. The hopes was to gain the support of the students, the future of France, and the intellectual elite of Paris. Hopfully the many advances to the various segments of Paris, and France, would prove to be fruitful..
Lothaire continued on his path to gain the popularity among the lower classes. The lower middle class was courted by his support to the National Guard and hinting to expand the franchise to include them and liberalise economical laws. The lower classes on the other hand had to be tackled in a different way. Lothaire had reckoned that in the Departments and countryside the real power resided among the landowners. Because they were the dominant powers in the area, and who the Ultras and Bourbons rested their power upon. Several men would be sent to the South-East of France to gain their support and to further antogonise the middle class in the region. However he believed the real power relied in Paris. The coutnryside might give the Orléanist greater political power and capital, but it was the capital of the nation that was the closest to the seat of power. The rulers of Paris needed to have the full confidence of the masses there in order to secure their rule over France.
In that respect Lothaire would extend the efforts in Paris to not only sway the upper borgouise and the lower middle class, but also the poor. The plans was quite simple. Several food and aid stations, modeled after what he had done during the Veterans League, was established in the poor districts of Paris. There several homeless persons was given shelter, starving families was given food and sick workers were given medical aid. Each of the stations would bear the name of Orléans or some central Orléanist politican. When poor men were given food they were reminded that it was the Duke of Orléans, or some other central Orléanist, who gave them it.
During these efforts several community houses were applied for and some had been constructed. It would serve for places where the poor could gather around and meet eachother. They would often be hosted by central Orléanists, such as Lothaire, and they would often remind them who made this all possible. Several "debates" were set up in these community halls (often just improvised tents on empty fields) between various Orléanists. They tend to remind them on stuff like "the indemnities served no other than the upper nobility. They only sought to enrichen themself while leaving the poor alone in the cold. Many have forsaken their holy duty to look after their own people, their own brothers and sisters. Only the Duke of Orléans and men like him give away great parts of their wealth to charity. To provide for housing as this or food for the poor. They give back to the people what they were granted quite clumsy by the Sully government. They truly represent the middle road".
Other efforts and debates also took place. Such as painting a difference between the extreme left and right. The extreme left claimed to represent the people, but in fact they only looked after themself. They bribed the people with promise of universial rights and so on, but it would only lead to the chaos of the Republic and Bonapartist-Ceasarism. They hadn't benefitted the poor, only a few. The same was said about absolutism, which obviouusly only looked after the few. The "juste milieu" was said to be what one should strive toward. That this was the true moderate way of ruling that didn't repress the poor through reactionism and ingorance or lure them with chaos and Ceasarism. Several more in depth debates took lace, but the real emphasis was that the Juste milieu would bring order and not chaos and true liberty to France, while the extrem left and extreme right in the end only looked after themself and abused the poor classes for their own ends. For did not many of the Ultras and Liberals alike ignore the plight of the poor during the famine, did they not only care about them until they thratened to put up the barricades? They went as far to make it look like those who really cared about them now followed the middle road led by the Duke of Orléans. Was it not they who had set up several shelters and food stations for those who suffer?
For the poor Lothaire also showed them various plans that they intended to hold fundraisers to help build theaters in the poorer districts. Afterall they were members of the Parisian society and the entertainment of the modern world should not only be limited to the middle and upper classes. They were given bread and circus, and reminded that it was th good hearted men of the "juste milieu" who did all this.
While Lothaire made these advances toward both the poor stratas and the lower middle class, he mostly let Laffitte and moderate figures have the reins in the Chamber of Deputies and among the many festivities aimed to gain the support from the middle and upper class of Paris. However Lothaire would mor frequently attend to the various universitites and colleges. There he would hold gust lectures and meet with other intellectuals. The guest lectures was mostly about the "juste milieu" and offered in depth analysis of what they coined "Democratism", "Ceasarism" and "Absolutism". In short they all led to chaos and oppression in the end, and the only real alternative was the happy medium. The hopes was to gain the support of the students, the future of France, and the intellectual elite of Paris. Hopfully the many advances to the various segments of Paris, and France, would prove to be fruitful..
