Although when he parted with Louis in Paris, he sensed that the young man seemed to have changed.
Ever since the young Bonaparte learned that the son of Napoleon, the King of Rome, died of tuberculosis in Vienna, and that he himself had a significant opportunity to become the next leader of the Bonaparte family, an unrealistic fervor had ignited within him.
It was a kind of passion that Arthur had never seen during Louis's tenure as Secretary of Police. The once grounded, progressing young man had suddenly vanished, replaced by a potential claimant to the throne of France.
The friends surrounding Louis had also changed from a group of old acquaintances to some unfamiliar faces Arthur had never seen.
The last time he met Louis in Paris, he advised him to consider the influence of the Royalists appropriately. Looking back now, it seems Louis had taken that advice, or else he would not have reached out to the Royalist leader Marquis of Gricourt.
