Chapter 1291 “Big Scene”

Before becoming famous, Ms. Chanel worked as a cabaret dancer in Vichy, a famous mineral water resort in France. She usually wore a sequined skirt during performances. This skirt was bare-shouldered and backless, which was quite seductive.

Looks like. There was a girl named Gabrielle who went to Vichy with her. She was almost the same age as Chanel, but she was actually Chanel's niece.

Chanel's acting career was not going well, and vocal and dance lessons required fees, so making money was a big problem.

So Gabrielle worked as a mineral water salesperson in a public drinking water hall. She put on a white uniform, poured glasses of mineral water on a strange platform surrounded by fences, and handed them to those who were seeking healing.

Paris also has a similar public drinking water hall. Everyone now knows that the water in the Seine River is not clean. Ordinary citizens will fetch water from the fountain. Two buckets are 2 sous, which is a big burden for ordinary families.

People with more money buy mineral water and soda water to drink. Soda water was invented by the British. Georgiana often drank a mineral water called "Luxury".

Josephine will drink mineral water. There are many mineral water producing areas. Josephine often changes the producing area. Therefore, compared with the single variety of soda water, there are more mineral water brands in Paris. With a variety of choices, there will be competition.

In order to attract customers, mineral water salesmen provide services to customers who come to drink water.

Most of these salespeople are young and beautiful. In order to maintain the relationship with their customers, they sometimes engage in flirting-like behavior to get them to buy water from them next time.

Napoleon himself knew not to choose his wife from women who could flirt, but his soldiers did not know that. The soldier named Colbert in the grenade unit thought that the mineral water salesman named Inas was interested in him, so he often went to her place.

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How it later evolved into Georgiana committing suicide for love is unknown. Although the person who died this time was a corporal, it not only alarmed the First Consul, but also angered General Lane. He took a company of people and rode

The horse followed Georgiana's carriage and appeared majestically on the streets of Paris.

The formation looked like Napoleon's Brumaire Coup. There were already rumors on the streets, but then another incident happened in another province. A statue of the Virgin shed tears for no reason. Later, the secret police found out that it was the work of the monks in the monastery.

You need to take the water cup from the Virgin's hand, so that the statue of the Virgin will not shed tears.

When the citizens on the street saw this scene, they thought someone was going to be arrested, so everyone moved out of the way.

Logically speaking, one shouldn't put up such a terrible battle against a little woman selling water, but Napoleon's army had been held back in Paris for a long time, not to mention that Parisian women dared to look down on the first consul, let alone "ordinary soldiers" like them.

I don’t know if mothers in every family have ever taught their daughters that a man is most afraid of a woman looking down on him. For the sake of that, he will sometimes do absurd, confused, impulsive things, even recklessly.

In September 1792, prisoners in the prison once did such a thing. Before disemboweling the old nobles, they placed tables and chairs in front of the execution place and let the ladies sit and watch. This is something that any normal person would do in normal times.

It was impossible to accept it, but under the circumstances, a woman sat down and watched.

Jealousy can make people dizzy and unable to think correctly about some issues. Disorderly and chaotic situations are absolutely hell for women, but there are still some people who want to intensify conflicts and make things get out of hand.

If this was not Paris, a place of law, and Inas was a woman, those murderous butchers on the battlefield would have killed her long ago.

Napoleon was still reasonable, and even when he was so angry, he still remembered to ask her not to use violence to prevent the citizens from accusing him of abusing his power.

If soldiers encounter this kind of thing, citizens will not encounter it. If it is not illegal for soldiers to hit people, then it should not be illegal for them to hit people. In the future, the order in the city will be even more chaotic.

If it weren't for Miss Georgiana, only the soldiers themselves would have digested this matter internally, and this anger would cut their hearts like a knife.

Now that I have found a solution, I will follow her example in the future. The people in that company are not only here to fill the scene and maintain order, but also to observe and learn. Mineral water sales points are generally in places with a large flow of people, Inas's

The mineral water sales point is near the icehouse on the left bank.

Since the British implemented saltpeter control in France, the saltpeter warehouse has been vacant and became a place to house prostitutes.

Saltpeter can not only be used to make gunpowder, but also used to make ice. Ice cubes are needed for cooked and frozen goods. Drinking a glass of ice juice, mineral water, and soda water in the summer is a very comfortable thing, and because of Napoleon

The tariff on coffee has been raised to a shocking level. Ordinary people can no longer afford to drink coffee. The business of mineral water sales points is very good.

When the soldiers arrived, the customers and salespeople were chatting and laughing. When they saw the soldiers coming, they thought they were just passing by and even planned to watch the fun like everyone else.

However, before the leading carriage could stop, the cavalry lined up in columns surrounded the small pavilion-like sales point. Customers and clerks suddenly became panicked.

Later, a customer took advantage of the chaos and ran away, but the soldiers ignored him. Seeing the situation, other customers also ran away. In the end, only three women in white aprons were left at the sales point, hiding behind the fence.

To Georgiana they looked like chickens in a coop.

The soldiers sat on their horses and did not dismount. They were only used as a deterrent. When the carriage stopped, someone opened the door for her. She was used to the fresh air in the suburbs. The air in the city mixed with the smell of feces and urine was really disgusting, but she

She didn't cover her face with a handkerchief, which would make people think she was being pretentious.

Sophie followed Georgiana out of the carriage. One of them was short and the other was delicate. They didn't look like they were making trouble. They were watching the excitement and whispering, as if they were guessing what they were here to do.

Georgiana didn't like this kind of scene, especially when she was dealing with people of the same sex. She was most opposed to women oppressing women.

But someone forced her to teach her a lesson harshly so that she would have a better memory.

She walked to the fence outside the sales point by herself, intending to find out who Inas was among the three women with frightened faces, but then she changed her mind.

At this time, the military doctor in another carriage came over, as did the soldier she specifically named. The soldier had suffered from smallpox, and his face was covered with scars like craters. The man didn't care, but he needed to keep his skin fair.

For a delicate woman, her face would be disfigured if she looked like this. Let alone a mineral water salesperson who needs to be young and beautiful, she would not be able to get married.

"Look at him," Georgiana said to the three women. "Does he look scary?"

The three women looked timidly at the soldier who had suffered from smallpox, and lowered their heads as soon as they caught his sight.

"Who is Inas?"

No one answered.

"Some of you must be innocent, but please remember that what happened today was all caused by her. I really don't want to do this." Georgiana said painfully, "A young man died. He

You can't die in vain. When you play love, you should think of this day."

After saying that, she turned around and looked at the citizens who were watching.

"Citizens, we are now going to transform this place into a vaccination site. I believe you must have heard that vaccination can prevent smallpox. Now we will show you how to vaccinate."

After she finished yelling, she looked back at the three women, who hugged each other in fear.

She couldn't bear to give the order, but the onlookers dismounted and snatched the three of them out like chickens, and brought the three of them out of the shady shed into the sunlight.

"Hiss"

Along with the sound of cloth being torn, a woman's scream also sounded.

"It's just that the sleeve was torn." Although Sophie was a little panicked, she said to Georgiana calmly.

She didn't want to see that scene, so she kept her back to everyone.

In the 21st century, everyone knows the risks of vaccination. Even children are not afraid and will cry twice when they are injected with the needle.

But for people in the early 19th century, when vaccination was not yet popular, it was a scary and mysterious thing full of unknowns. Only brave people would take the initiative to get vaccinated.

The screams of the three women could not be called brave in any way. Each of them was held down by two soldiers, and then a military doctor vaccinated them with cowpox.

The most disgusting thing among war crimes was this. She felt that His Excellency Bonaparte thought too highly of her and wanted her to accompany the army to witness all this.

She wanted to go back to Hogwarts, that isolated wizarding school where there was a wizard wearing a black cloak that looked like bat wings, but would he still protect her?

The process of vaccination is long and short. Originally, the purpose of popularizing science was to make people less afraid, but now it seems to be reversed. The whispers are gone, and there is more silence, so that the cries and screams of women are even more harsh.

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"It's over, miss." Sophie said softly.

She looked back at the soldiers, who had lingering anger on their faces, staring fiercely at the three women rolling in the mud and water, and some of them spit on the ground to express their contempt.

Their expressions clearly said, "It's not over yet," and they will take revenge for the vengeance they have accumulated in the past.

The relationship between men and women should not be about hating each other, not to mention that if soldiers do this, they will have a worse image in the hearts of the citizens. Those gentle men and wealthy people will be more favored by women.

Mars longs to be loved, but the god of love is so scared that he will only run away. She doesn't know whether it is more important to relieve her anger now or to think about long-term interests, and whether it is right or wrong to do so.

How could a woman as vicious and unchaste as she be be Maria?

General Lane, who had been watching, dismounted. He was one of the servants who had followed Napoleon back from Egypt to participate in the coup.

He came over, helped Georgiana back to the carriage with French etiquette, and after closing the door, ordered the coachman to take her to Leoncourt's house.

Whoever she was, she was not Josephine, and she could not go to the Tuileries Palace in Monsignor Bonaparte's absence.

This dream is really absurd. Even though dreaming is free, why does she still dream about being shackles on her body?

"Sophie, is that young man named Godin still writing you love poems?"

Sophie nodded expressionlessly.

"Call him over. If he never gets a reply, he will hate you out of love."

"I don't want to agree to date him just because of a few love poems, and I don't want to play with love like those women just now." Sophie said coldly.

"You can't give him love, just give him power, so that he will feel that his efforts have been rewarded and compensated. Socrates said that being rejected by his lover gave him freedom and the opportunity to find a new lover. I am

I didn’t know how to refuse, and that’s why I became like this.”

"You refused your gift," Sophie said.

She didn't know how to explain it to this little girl.

She had seen portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte, the most famous of which was the one riding a white horse, but she was indifferent to that painting.

But when she saw him wearing a Mamluk sword and appearing in front of her like an adventurer, she thought this man was wonderful and she wanted to know him.

The portrait of him wearing the emperor's crown, holding a scepter and the hand of justice is a bit funny. He has a child-like face, but he tries hard to look majestic and looks like a "little emperor."

She touched the olive branch brooch on her chest. She really liked this gift because it appeared with the sword bearer on the notice posted by the French army in the Papal States.

He met Josephine because of a sword, and she met him because of a sword. What a funny and stupid self-association.

She wanted to go to the monastery and let all those "phantoms" disappear from her life, so that she could be more like a normal person.

"Hail Mary, you are full of grace, the Lord is with you, you are praised among women..." Sophie clasped her hands together and prayed quietly with her eyes closed.

Watching her chanting sutras, Georgiana's heart also became calm.

She suddenly didn't want to go to Leoncourt's house.

So she patted the carriage and asked the driver to take them to a church.

Maybe she could order the choir to sing for her. She really needed to hear that kind of heavenly sound now to drive away the woman's scream she just heard, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep.
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