Chapter 1150 The Story of Paris (3)

As a cultural city, the National Library of Paris has far more readers than other cities. The reading room is almost full of people. Unfortunately, it is in a modern style and is not as gorgeous as Notre Dame and the Louvre.

Naturally, it cannot attract tourists.

Because it is far away from the city center, the outside of the library looks desolate, and coupled with the manic wind, the place seems abandoned.

But around the library, a new city is being built rapidly.

Francois Pinault, the boss of Gucci, originally planned to build his own museum in Paris. Unfortunately, the plan was delayed by the procrastinating city government. In April, he announced that the museum would be moved to the Grand Canal in Venice.

Even if he wanted to find another job, he still had to find a good job first. Francois made all preparations before making the announcement.

Why did Rose dump Carl and choose Jack?

Perhaps it was because she saw the empty soul inside Karl's golden body.

The library always gives people a quiet feeling, using the poet's way of describing it: If there is heaven, it should be what a library looks like.

The strange thing is that Pomona didn't feel the tranquility in this modern place. She felt a kind of restlessness, which made her feel very upset.

Expanding the library is just a real estate development project. It should cost a lot of money, create a lot of job opportunities, and allow some officials to enrich their own pockets. In short, it has nothing to do with reading.

This feeling did not improve until she came to the old area of ​​the King's Library.

During the Industrial Revolution, Paris was once a city on par with London. When the ancient and the modern collide, it does not necessarily mean that one will be destroyed.

In this circular hall, there are no prophets or angels painted on the dome, but a large glass window with a steel frame structure, which allows natural light to shine in to the maximum extent.

The large central window is surrounded by 22 small windows. The rotunda is three stories high, with circular bookcases on each floor, and the reading area is covered with blue carpets.

She could feel a "magic" that made her want to stop.

Schopenhauer said that the Latin word patientia, "patience", is related to pain.

Patience is so dull, lazy, listless and a woman's gift.

But if the world is made extremely bad, patience becomes extremely useful and necessary.

Harry was very impatient at times, so Sirius gave him the double-sided mirror as a gift. Why didn't he think of using it to contact Sirius before he acted recklessly?

The wizarding world is not a Muggle world where everything pursues efficiency. He will always think of it when he slows down and thinks carefully.

If you rush forward in a hurry, you will easily fall into the enemy's trap. War sometimes requires patience. If you act rashly, you will mess up your position. If Severus hadn't tipped off the enemy, Harry and the others would have fallen into the trap of Lucius and Voldemort.

They are just teenagers. Young people tend to act impulsively. This is easily exploited by older adults who can control their impulses and consider things more comprehensively.

Since the old fool himself was confused sometimes, he misunderstood that Harry was a Horcrux, so Pomona didn't bother to chase him. What's more, that kid was full of weird things. Harry not only knew Parseltongue, but also had telepathy.

The power of Horcruxes, and the prophecy made by Sybill Trelawney in Harry's third year. Compared with Albus's well-founded guesses, Pomona's unfounded guesses are even more untrustworthy.

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A gust of wind blew behind her, and it made a "wuwu" cry, which sounded like the whimpering of an innocent soul deep in the ground, making this early summer very cold.

Her mind couldn't help but picture the skull walls of the catacombs.

Three years before the French Revolution, that is, in 1786, a plague also occurred in Paris. People were accustomed to bury their dead in the cemetery of the neighborhood church. In order to bury the new dead, the bones from the ground were dug out, as if they were corpses.

Full to overflowing.

It is precisely because of this that Louis XVI ordered the priests to use the former quarry as an ossuary and move all the bones in the cemetery here. This included Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

It's just that she may have some privileges. She doesn't have to be dismantled like other skeletons. She is still relatively complete if she is arranged according to the type of bones.

Metro, underground waterway, catacombs, no wonder there are no tall buildings in the center of Paris.

If the foundation is broken, no matter how splendid the buildings on the ground are, they will eventually collapse.

To complete the stacking of six million or seven million corpses, it not only requires courage, but also a calm heart. It is not something that can be done by the "adventurer" who goes to the catacombs to explore the secrets in the middle of the night just to prove his boldness.

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In 1871, the Paris Commune uprising failed, and many revolting workers hid in the catacombs to escape. Government troops heard the news and searched inside with torches.

The stone in the quarry is used for Notre Dame Cathedral and medieval buildings. It is said that it is 200 miles long. Now only 2 kilometers are open to visit, and other places are still shrouded in darkness.

In the eyes of those revolting workers, neither corpses nor ghosts were as scary as the government troops.

Man finally defeated death and became the most terrifying animal in the world.

I heard that during the Second World War, the French Resistance Organization was also close to these corpses and secretly set up its headquarters here. It seems that the freedom and dignity of the French people have to be fought for by the people themselves.

French people are generally disappointed with the government. France is going backwards. Let alone becoming the European hegemon again, it is already good to be able to maintain its position in the EU.

Maybe the French Revolution was not Marie Antoinette's fault alone. After all, when the people were in plague, famine and poverty, she was not the only nobleman who sang and danced in the Palace of Versailles. French finances have been in decline since Louis XIV.

Downhill, Louis XV kept so many mistresses but had no money to marry his daughter. He made no plans for Princess Louis' marriage at all.

But it was her fault that she did not stay firmly to complete the constitutional monarchy when the emperor wanted to flee the capital, like Theodora, the empress of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian.

I heard that Mary the Decapitated had a hobby: she liked to play milkmaid with the ladies in the small peasant palace given to her by Louis XVI. If she had time to read two more books and learn how to be a queen, she would not be left behind.

What happens next.

It is not difficult to understand that Justinian would choose a prostitute to be his queen, because with Theodora's support, Justinian not only had a powerful army, this army was also absolutely loyal to him, not only defending him

The Persians attacked, even though the king's order required them to raise their butcher's knives against the rioting civilians.

Theodora was still the queen even if she died, and Mary couldn't survive by running away, so why not give it a try?

It was Joan of Arc who brought Charles VII back to Paris, ending British rule in Paris during the Hundred Years' War.

It was also a woman who made the French king lose his crown.

Marie Antoinette must have never heard of this adage: Purple is the most beautiful shroud.

This is why women want to study. It is no wonder that the laws promulgated by Napoleon after he ascended the throne weakened women's financial rights.

It's just that men who have gained financial power are not very wise, and they still love to keep mistresses.

Grindelwald may be eloquent, but it's a pity that no one thought of saving him after he became a prisoner.

Albus may not be perfect, but he has gained the loyalty of many people.

It was he who taught her to be a simple woman. Even if she had money to wear gorgeous clothes, she still wore a patched witch hat.

The Sorting Hat is actually an old hat, but it has determined the fate of many people.

"Hello, ma'am." When Pomona visited the reading room, a young man with green eyes and red hair looked at her blankly and said to her in English, "May I know your name?"

Pomona smiled at him and ignored him.

"Maybe you don't remember me. We met last time in Westminster Abbey." The young man said behind her, "I followed you into an alley."

Pomona stopped walking.

Her memory quickly reversed, and there was indeed a man holding a black umbrella sitting at the door of the alley.

She was also wearing high-end clothes that day. A beggar might have thought he had an opportunity and followed her from a distance.

Until she met Severus hiding in an alley, he used Death Eater flying to take her away to the cemetery where their daughter was buried.

"I remember your hair was silver-white at that time."

"Who are you?" Pomona looked back at him.

The young man stretched out his hand towards her.

"I am Nick Flamel's disciple, Carnelian, and I have been waiting for you for a long time."
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