During his last meeting with the King before 25 July, Grandi described his bold plan to eliminate Mussolini and attack the Germans.[41] Grandi compared Victor Emmanuel to the 18th-century duke of Savoy, Victor Amedeus II, who switched from the French to the imperial alliance, rescuing the dynasty.[42] All that the King needed was another Pietro Micca (the Savoyard soldier who became a national hero for his sacrifice in the defense of Turin in 1706 against the French), and Grandi proposed himself for this role.[43] Victor Emmanuel countered that he was a constitutional monarch, so he could only move after a vote of the parliament or the Grand Council of Fascism.[44] The King was opposed to making a sudden move that could be considered betrayal.