The first day of the short trip to Strasbourg caused Jerome Bonaparte to "lose" more than 20 million francs. Although this money was used to train qualified military commanders, Jerome Bonaparte always had an indescribable feeling that it was as if all this had been arranged in advance by Renio.
That evening, Jerome Bonaparte wrote to the Ministry of War, requesting that its financial department allocate funds to the Strasbourg region, and at the same time dispatch a group of mathematicians from Paris to Strasbourg.
Whether it's the artillery or "civil engineering" department, mathematics is indispensable, and compared to the strong academic atmosphere of Paris, the mathematicians in Strasbourg are not up to par. Moreover, the professors at Strasbourg's universities were already nearly bald from being overworked by two military schools.
