"An excellent monarch always thinks of aiming cannons at his capital, an excellent father always puts his son in danger. I am indeed an excellent monarch and father!"
For Jerome Bonaparte's self-deprecation, Augusta was momentarily at a loss for words.
After all, Augusta, unlike Jerome Bonaparte, was not "pretentious," so she didn't consider aiming cannons at Paris as madness, but rather as an inevitable action.
Just look, if back then Louis XVI had been able to decisively mobilize troops to besiege Paris like Louis XIV, the Great Revolution wouldn't have happened, and the entire France would still be under the Capet Dynasty's rule.
