命运的分途——Austria, Prussia and Germany: 1806-1871
1806-1815:小神罗的逝去与路德最初的觉醒
——总的来说,这是一个悲剧。
——一颗小土豆被煮了。但是另一颗小土豆又长了出来。而且还跟前一颗土豆长得差不多。
——悲剧啊!
(悲剧你个头)
这就是这段悲情的(才不是)历史的开头。
《奥.地.利,普.鲁.士与德.意.志:1806-1871》一书,以看似严肃的史学家的笔调,讲述了一对性格严重不和的夫妻争夺孩子抚养权的故事。John Breuilly这位伯明翰大学的教授很好地继承了亚瑟·柯克兰先生的狗仔队八卦精神,将马鹿夫妻间的各种纠纷娓娓道来,脉络清晰,简明易懂,语气中肯,实乃娱乐周刊小记们学习的榜样。(误很大)
那么,就让我们本着大黑塔利亚的萌之精神,对Breuilly先生的著作进行史上最不靠谱、最不信达雅的翻译罢。
1806年,那个叫神.圣.罗.马.帝.国的梳背头的孩子最终卒于自己的最后一位上司弗朗茨二世之手。而这位同志在1804年成为了奥.地.利帝国的第一位皇帝,于是我们可以自动脑补为亲爱的后娘罗德里赫在弗朗西斯的威胁下含泪将自己的孩子给亲手掐死——“儿啊!为了避免长大以后谢顶的命运,你就先去吧!”那一刻暴风雨大作,美泉宫笼中的金丝雀歌唱着忽然倒毙,小神罗嘴角带着血丝,艰难地微笑着:“妈妈,我……很幸福……”
卡。同学你走题了。
好吧其实贵族的确死了这么一个孩子,那一刻确实也是风雨大作,笼中的金丝雀突然倒毙。这孩子就是小罗马王,拿.破.仑与奥.地.利公主玛丽亚·路易莎的儿子。直至今日美泉宫还保留着他死时的容颜的塑像。非常美丽的雕塑。
但是,梳背头的历史怎么可能会就此断绝?一个梳背头的孩子倒下去,又一个梳背头的孩子站起来,就连相貌都没怎么改变,只是变得更加面瘫和弱气了而已。
这个孩子就是莱.茵.联.盟(Rheinbund)。在法叔的一手操纵下,他诞生了。
The formal destruction of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 had several consequences. First, a number of medium-sized states were created which pursued more ambitious policies than their smaller and more numerous predecessors. Of these the most important which survived into the post 1815 period were the newly created kingdoms of Bavaria and Wuttemberg as well as the established kingdom of Saxony, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Landgravate of Hess-Darmstadt. Second, the Rheinbund, which replaced the Empire, was a Napoleonic creation designed for the extraction of money and soldiers.
Whatever view one takes, it is difficult to deny that initially the Rheinbund was the brutal creation of power imposed from above, made with little reference to dynastic, ethnic or confessional traditions. The new states remained subject to arbitrary will, embodied in the restless, amoral and ruthless figure of Napoleon.
John, Breuilly, “Austria, Prussia and Germany: 1806-1871”, p.p.6