The Law of the Double Vote

The years of liberal advance ended abruptly in 18 20, when the duc de berry was murdered at the opera by a fanatical bonapartist. The ultra seized on the notion that the assassin had been a part of a vast liberal conspiracy that seemed to be sweeping europe. A few french liberals fled to italy in the wake of their own failed uprising in 18 20 and then came home fully briefed on how to build a carbonary insurrection. But as so often happens with these things, the plans were leaked by men who got cold feet at the last minute, and the uprising had to be called off.