Chapter 1413 “The Art of Balance”

King Louis I of Etruria came to Paris this time to receive a title. Originally, Queen Maria Luisa of Spain also wanted to come, but she declined on the grounds that she had just given birth to a child and it was inconvenient to travel.

Madame de Staal, who was far away in Switzerland, said humorously, "Napoleon Bonaparte conducted experiments on the descendants of the royal family, and now even the king has to come to see him."

After Napoleon received this descendant of the Bourbon royal family for the welcome ceremony, Talleyrand took over the reception. At that time, there was a line in the opera "Oedipus": I have supreme royal power, but it is not for my own sake.

After hearing these words, the audience burst into thunderous applause.

There are so many operas performed in Paris every day, but only a few can be remembered. Gordin Poitevin has been remembered because "he is a good man, but a bad king", not to mention that he himself is different.

plan.

Napoleoni found a new personal maid for Georgiana, her name was Stephanie Felicity Ducret de Saint-Auban, who before the Revolution was known as the Countess of Genlis, and she was also

She is an advisor to the Orleans Party, is good at writing novels, and has even published two books. Like Sophie, she can serve as Georgiana's secretary.

As for her housekeeper, he didn't make any arrangements, or in other words, he didn't mention it at all.

The water diversion tower will definitely become a new landmark in Paris in the future. In Napoleon's words, he finally found the purpose of an artist.

He asked her what she wanted to build the tower into.

At first she thought of Dante and the Papal Well in Orvieto, which reminded her of the labyrinth she had encountered in the Alps. A group of Frenchmen had left the words "The Devil is Dead" on the wall.

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Later she remembered the manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci that she had seen last time in the Louvre. People of his time held a festival in Milan called "

Planet Ball” celebration.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote very little about that ceremony, but Bernardo Bellinzioni described the scene in detail, which scholars at the Louvre helped her find among thousands of tons of manuscripts and materials.

of.

The dance started with a song and dance performance, and then rows of people with masks filed in. Turks rode horses and strolled. The green dome covered the ceiling of the hall. When the midnight bell struck, the Moors dressed in oriental costumes,

The music was ordered to stop playing, and the curtain opened to reveal a hemisphere symbolizing the vast sky. It looked like half an egg, and the inside was completely painted with gold.

There are many candles placed in it to symbolize starlight, and there are also niches with seven stars arranged in orbit, and there are also the signs of the zodiac, each with an actor pretending to be a star god.

The soft and sweet music covered the hum of the machine. Whenever a Star God came to the table of the Duke Sforza family, the Star God would jump down from the pedestal and read out the eulogy on the stage.

This water alarm clock was designed by Leonardo da Vinci, but his design drawings may have been scattered in the hands of joiners, painters and costume designers. There was no trace left at that time. It was one of the many short-lived works of the inventor Leonardo da Vinci.

one.

Then they talked about Venice, and the bell tower with the zodiac constellation in St. Mark's Square. There were also Moors ringing bells on it. He regretted that he was not a painter like David, who could paint the pictures he imagined.

Draw it.

So she began to encourage Napoleon to learn painting, and she also teased him about how funny he would look dressed as a medieval man holding a drawing board.

Who would have thought that Napoleon, the God of War, was not only a poet, but also a painter, but his painting method was not to record with a brush like a real painter, but to use his eyes to record in his heart.

Most people cannot accurately perceive two hours, but this is one of Napoleon's "superpowers". He was as punctual as an alarm clock.

He got out of bed without hesitation and started to get dressed. Every time at this time, Georgiana especially hoped that he would throw two gold coins to her, so that she would not feel so lost.

He obviously regarded Gordan's home as his own, and there were actually his own clothes in the closet. He changed out of his civilian clothes and put on a blue colonel's uniform, which made him look like he was "reigning" again.

Already.

When he stood in front of Georgiana dressed neatly, he did not ask her to tidy up his tie or anything, but after much hesitation, he mentioned the matter of cutting her living expenses.

Georgiana had no objection to this. Anyway, she planned to use the 6 million francs he gave her to do business. He had only spent 1 million francs when he rebuilt the Tuileries Palace.

After she agreed, he was visibly relieved, and then he mentioned a "little thing".

In the 19th century, it was almost a recognized work benefit for diplomats to use insider information to trade, and they rarely faced legal charges and moral condemnation. The "Peace of Luneville" stipulated that Austrian public bonds issued in Belgium would be redeemed at par. Talleyrand took advantage of this opportunity.

, made a fortune by buying large amounts of Austrian government bonds from many creditors who held them but thought they would be worthless.

Because she was worried that Jager and his son were falsely reporting the price of sandalwood, Georgiana paid attention to the news about the wood. Of course, it was also related to her wanting to take advantage of the good relations between France and Russia to do bulk timber business, but she did not expect that busy Bonaparte

Lord Ba actually paid attention to this little thing.

Just when she was about to ask, he had already put on the three-cornered hat, opened the door and left the bedroom.

This person didn't have the habit of slamming the door like the other person. Even though the door was open, the cold wind from outside came in. It didn't take long for her to hear the sound of horse hooves and the sound of a carriage driving away from outside the house. Soon

There was silence.

For people two hundred years later, getting married and falling in love between British and French people is not a problem at all, because Britain and France are both members of the European Union, and an undersea tunnel has been dug between the two countries.

However, in this era, the situation faced by Georgiana was almost the same as that of Horace's sister. This wrong love affair should have ended after the peace treaty was submitted. The First Consul still had new problems and new troubles to deal with. As promised.

What Josephine expected, a marriage without children was unrealistic, and Georgiana was even more unrealistic than Josephine. At least she had a marriage certificate registered at the city hall. Georgiana had nothing. Isn't she stupid?

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Just as she was deep in thought, she suddenly heard someone smashing her window with small stones.

She got up angrily, wrapped herself in a sheet, and then put on her dressing gown, intending to teach the man a lesson. When she came to the window, she found a person standing outside.

It was an ugly-looking woman, her shoulders were high on one side and low on the other, her eyes were staring toward the middle, and her face was thin and pale, which reminded Georgiana of Merope.

"Help me." The woman lowered her voice and said, "The Purifiers are hunting me!"

Georgiana suddenly woke up.

"Who are you?"

"I am Maria Adelaida Lenormand, and I once divined for Josephine." The ugly woman said, "Please take me in, please."

Georgiana was unmoved. She still remembered what happened to her when she rashly helped Peter Pedillo.

"I have important information." Maria said. "Do you want to continue to be the mediator?"

"What do they want to do?" Georgiana sneered.

"I want to live a long life." Maria said seriously, and took out a tarot card from her pocket, which was the hermit. "My current strength cannot support divination for His Majesty the Emperor. I need to be more diligent."

"He's still going to be king?"

"You can also feel that his fate is beyond our control." Maria put down the cards. "I originally just wanted to earn a little money and live a comfortable life, but I didn't want to risk my life."

"Maybe this is part of fate." Georgiana said with a smile, "Come to the front door and I will open the door for you."

Then she left the window.
Chapter completed!