Amidst the crowd, the Royalist and Republican members 'lurking' within let out a sigh of relief after hearing Jerome Bonaparte's assurance that there would be no retribution.
Both the Royalists (the Orthodox Faction and the Orleans Faction) and the Republicans were terribly afraid that the assassin might be a misguided ally from their own side.
If the assassination succeeded, they could ride the wave of the emperor's death and use the situation to bargain, "inviting" the Bonaparte Faction out of power and then declaring the establishment of a Kingdom/Republic.
An empire that lost its Emperor and Empress could hardly continue under the rule of a four-year-old child emperor and a group of scheming Bonaparte supporters.
However, the crux of the matter was that both Emperor Jerome Bonaparte and Empress Augusta survived, and they even captured the assassin.
