"Clemency? My God! You want me to forgive someone who tried to assassinate me? A villain seeking to disrupt France?"
Jerome Bonaparte responded to Baron Hubert with an exaggerated tone, but there was not a trace of desire in his heart to kill James Rothschild and his son.
Even the so-called shooter was a play directed and acted out by Jerome Bonaparte himself.
Just as Baron James Rothschild speculated after his imprisonment, Jerome Bonaparte had no interest in killing Baron James Rothschild, nor in annexing his assets and breaking up his bank. What he wanted was a stable banker.
As it is said, the economic base determines the superstructure. In a capitalist country with lingering feudal remnants, eliminating a historically significant bank is bound to lead to secondary turmoil in the financial market and panic in Paris's banking sector.
