Chapter 1165 The Elf of Louvre (2)

Baboons are not actually a species native to Egypt. It is said that the Egyptians once made an expedition to the south of the Nile River and the "Land of Pent", which is probably now East Africa or the Arabian Peninsula. Then the Egyptians brought this unprecedented magical animal to Egypt.

Carry out captivity.

They probably didn't succeed in domesticating baboons, otherwise some people would keep baboons as pets now, and cats would be domesticated, although they may think that human homes are their own territory.

Baboons are also social animals. Their territories are often left by their ancestors. Naturally, some areas have abundant water sources and abundant fruits, while others are short of water and drought. Therefore, it is inevitable that conflicts will arise in order to compete for better territories.

Baboons practice polygamy, and the family foundation is not solid. A few baboons often hug each other, and most male baboons can only watch from the side.

Therefore, those single baboons compete for dominance and mating rights whenever they have the opportunity, causing chaos in the group.

However, in most cases they are still very restrained, because no one wants to be injured in battle.

There are many carnivores around the baboon territory, such as hyenas and cheetahs. These beasts always monitor the group of baboons and will kill injured or sick baboons whenever they have the opportunity.

Baboons will evaluate risks and benefits before fighting, which allows them to stay rational and give up some irrelevant interests to avoid fighting. For example, if you throw a peanut in front of a male baboon, it will immediately pick it up and eat it.

If a peanut is thrown between two male baboons of equal status, they will turn a blind eye. In their eyes, it is not worth fighting for a peanut.

Minerva likes Quidditch very much, but Albus is not really that keen. He prefers the game of ninepins, but unfortunately no one plays with him. He occasionally goes to watch Quidditch matches.

Why do boys fight so hard in Quidditch? I'm afraid only they know this. For some people, Quidditch is just a peanut placed in front of two baboons, and there is no need to use it.

Violence.

Similarly, women are just peanuts to some people. Wouldn't it be stupid to fight for women?

The king and the upper-class male nobles are those male baboons hugging each other. They don't know how many single young male baboons there are at the bottom, planning to overthrow them and replace them with hugging themselves.

If the old baboons cannot defeat the young baboons, they will lose their wives and concubines. Not only that, they will also lose their social status. Grooming each other is a friendly gesture by Feifei. Generally, after a new baboon king is born, it will take a long time.

Over time, in order to consolidate his status, the king baboon will take the initiative to groom the lower-status female and male baboons.

The King Baboon only grooms other baboons symbolically, while the lower-status baboons always try their best to groom the King Baboon. Therefore, the King Baboon's hair is always shiny and smooth, which can be seen at a glance.

When danger occurs, the male protects from behind, threatens and roars, or even fights back, while the female baboon and her cubs take the opportunity to escape.

At the same time, there are also hierarchies among female baboons. Female baboons who like to communicate will give birth to and raise children with a particularly high survival rate.

Like humans, they do not have a fixed breeding season, have wars and disputes like humans, and like humans to communicate, but they know more restraint than humans. This characteristic makes them a mythical beast that represents wisdom worshiped by the Egyptians.

The Sun King Louis XIV was an autocratic and totalitarian king. Although he liked to have fun, he only enjoyed it alone. After he died, everyone could truly relax.

Nobles did nothing else but fall in love. During the seventy-two years of Louis XIV's reign, at first his mistresses were dancing girls from a lowly background, and later there were some women with shady names. Paris's mistresses

There was talk everywhere in the streets about which beauty the king had an affair with. Even if she was once the wife of a noble, who would dare to touch her after she became the king's woman?

Every beautiful woman felt that she had a chance, so she dressed herself up and tried every means to get in front of the king, hoping that she would be favored. The ball was the best "social" occasion.

The men attending the ball are not fools, and they consciously stay away from women who have other goals. They will have affairs with married women, because the husbands of noble ladies also have sex with other people's wives, or with La Traviata.

The same "social stars" are together.

Rousseau's favorite woman, Madame de Valente, was married before. The aristocratic couples were doing their own thing, and the marriage was just a formality.

In the writings of Maupassant, duels became popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. Duels were first for women, deceived husbands and jealous lovers died because they could not tolerate the injury of their pride. Secondly, they were public humiliation, limelight, and judicial duels used to resolve litigation disputes.

On the contrary, there are specialized people engaged in this profession.

People of that era often dueled over trivial matters. They spoke too loudly to overwhelm the other party, stepped on others without saying sorry, or even dueled over nothing.

The duellists appeared at the rendezvous at dawn, and at this time they were at peace. The "shame" could only be eliminated through bloodshed.

The king banned duels, but to little effect.

Philosophers of the Enlightenment theoretically condemned and refuted the motivations and reasons for dueling, allowing people to be more rational, making dueling lose much of its charm.

After the Revolution, duels often made headlines, and slanderous remarks in newspapers could also make the parties involved angry and trigger duels.

Eventually the duel became a publicity stunt, the newspapers made a fuss, no one was killed or injured, the crowd lost interest, and even the showy people were no longer willing to duel, so duels were considered illegal.

Pomona didn't like the dueling laws implemented by the British Ministry of Magic, and she didn't like the anti-werewolf laws even more.

She also doesn't like the French nobles who patronize love affairs, and the fool Rohart is enough.

Therefore, she was not interested in the gorgeous jewelry of the Egyptians, especially after seeing the baboon sculpture. She was more interested in seeing the Egyptians' understanding of life, death and soul.

It's a pity that she can't understand the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and she can't understand the stone tablets on display in the Louvre.

She was in a mood at the moment, very angry, as if a thief had entered a treasure house but returned empty-handed.

Except for the Pensieve, they did not encounter any other obvious treasures in the Egyptian Pavilion that they could recognize at a glance. After all, such opportunities were still very rare. Just like those treasures that were lucky enough to escape tomb robbers, foreign explorers and local officials.

Complete tombs of ancient Egyptian nobles.

Naturally, there is no Scorpion King bracelet.

There was no point in continuing to stay in the Egyptian Pavilion, so the two illiterate people left the Syrian Pavilion.

Severus's expression was quite calm, but Pomona recalled the experience of being treated as a person who only ate and did not work in XZ more than 20 years ago.

Maybe time will make us forget love and hate, but memories of embarrassment and shame will always pop up from time to time, allowing the owner of the memory to relive the feeling of that moment.

"I want to learn hieroglyphics..."

"You haven't learned Greek well." Severus interrupted her heroic words coldly.

She grabbed Severus' arm and whined in frustration.

But who calls her uneducated?

Even if you miss it, you have to admit it.
Chapter completed!