Louis saw Arthur was silent and couldn't hold back after a while, so he finally said: "Arthur, Alexander, I appreciate your concern. But I'm feeling down lately, not because I'm afraid Louis Philippe will chop off my head. Rather... it's Austria, I received some news from Vienna. I didn't want to tell you, but even if I don't say anything, you will probably find out once you get to Paris."
Arthur asked: "What happened to Austria?"
Great Dumas recalled Heine's sarcastic comments about Austrian Prime Minister Metternich: "Could it be that Metternich's German hemorrhoids have flared up again? And with urinary incontinence?"
But Louis clearly had no intention of joking, he held his head with one hand and shook it slightly: "My brother, Napoleon's son, the King of Rome of the French Empire, the Prince of Parma and Duke of Reichstadt of the Austrian Empire, Francois Joseph Charles Bonaparte, has died in Vienna due to tuberculosis."
