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You must know, according to the communication speeds of this era, even if horses were run to death, it would still take four to five days from Rome to Paris.
In fact, of these two days it took for the news of the assassination attempt to reach Joseph, the vast majority of time was spent on the journey from Rome to Lyon.
Lyon only took 40 minutes to relay the message back to Paris via a semaphore system!
This is despite the signal operators just having started their jobs, being quite inexperienced, and the reports from Rome being somewhat long.
According to Sharp's estimates, if the semaphore line were connected throughout, and everything went smoothly, it would take less than half an hour to transmit 20 words from the southernmost tip of France to the northernmost tip.
This was truly the telegraph of the era!
