Chapter 1683 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Twenty-eight)

On December 23, 1848, Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte held his first official dinner since taking office at the Elysée Palace. Victor Hugo was invited to attend. The banquet was held in a square hall.

Decorated with white wainscoting in the style of the First French Empire, the room has a sideboard and a long table with rounded corners in the middle. About fifteen guests are sitting at the table, which is raised in the inner part.

-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was sitting there.

Everyone else was wearing evening clothes, but he was the only one wearing a uniform with a rosette of the Legion of Honor on his chest. This was very similar to the style of Napoleon I during the First Empire. Everyone else was dressed gorgeously, but he was the only one dressed simply.

, people can recognize him from the crowd at a glance.

When Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte saw Victor Hugo coming, he immediately stopped talking to the two women on the left and right, stood up to greet Hugo, shook hands with him warmly, and waited for Hugo to sit down.

There are 16 people dining at this dining table.

The scene was certainly not comparable to the "Last Supper", and President Napoleon did not announce at the end of the dinner that one of the disciples would betray him. Among the people present at the time was the Marquise Halle-Coartegon, who had a pair of beautiful

She has little eyes, little hair, and an ugly mouth, but fair skin and a well-proportioned neck. According to the Prince of Moscow, this Marchioness was once the mistress of Jerome Napoleon and now became Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.

Hugo's mistress, this lame witticism did not enliven the atmosphere, and there was no detailed record of the food at the dinner in Hugo's diary. He focused on observing people.

After the dinner, when Hugo was talking to Prince Napoleon in Moscow, the president took him aside and asked Hugo what he thought of the current situation. Hugo talked in general terms about appeasing the bourgeoisie and getting the people to work.

After being able to live, Louis-Charles Napoleon Bonaparte asked Victor Hugo "How to whitewash peace?"

Hugo said: "Decorate peace with the great achievements of art, literature and science, and decorate peace with the victories of industry and progress. France is a nation with a conquering spirit. When France does not conquer with the sword, it conquers with the spirit. Understanding this and

Act accordingly, ignore this and you will be lost.”

Sometimes even Voldemort loses his bearings. At this time, a prophecy can at least provide a reference. However, the prophecy was provided by an amateur spy who was inquiring about information in a tavern, and the spy could not believe it. Voldemort needed to confirm the content of the prophecy.

However, he himself could not get the prophecy ball in the Department of Mysteries, although he was also part of the prophecy.

Sometimes people always overlook something, even if they think they have observed carefully. For example, Victor Hugo did not notice that Queen Eugenie did not attend the banquet.

This is understandable, after all, the mistress of Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was present, but Hugo did not notice what role he played in the banquet.

On that occasion, he said, "If you ignore this point, you will lose your way." Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte would not really listen to what he said as a life mentor. How to conquer the world is a national matter.

It was not something that a small writer like him should be concerned about. As expected, Hugo later wrote an article "When I Move Toward a Magnificent Goal" in order to resist the dictatorship of Napoleon III, and was subsequently exiled.

As a writer, Hugo should work at home, but he is both at home and away from home. Ordinary women have spiritual needs in their married life, which Hugo ignored. The actress Juliet after confirming her relationship with Hugo

She rarely participates in roles anymore. She is like a housewife who wholeheartedly helps Hugo manage his life. She can completely understand Hugo's work, because an actress's job is to understand the script.

The love between her and Hugo lasted for more than fifty years, and finally she officially obtained the status of Hugo's official spouse before her death. During this period, she did not act disloyal to Hugo. When Hugo was exiled, Juliet...

Drouet still followed him.

A woman's spiritual needs are met in a relationship, and she can endure any hardship. Although Juliet also had a shady past, she later performed well and was recognized by the French people.

She left her mark on the city of Paris. The equestrian sculpture of Louis XV on the Place de la Concorde was overthrown by the people, but the urban sculpture of Strasbourg with the image of Juliette Drouet remained.

.She seemed angry at the time, although Hugo later had an affair with another woman many years after the sculpture was sculpted.

During the war, men were likely to be called up for military service. Victor Hugo, who was 69 years old at the time, was no longer of conscription age. The French still "forbidden" him to go to the front line. In their words, anyone could go to the front line.

Go, Hugo will stay and do what only Hugo can do.

Like Alexandre Dumas, Hugo could have left before the siege of Paris, and he was even abroad at the time. However, Hugo chose to return to his country, to Paris, and to be with the people of Paris. The "Siege of Paris" he left behind will transform the war.

Everything he experienced during this period was recorded.

After the Franco-Prussian War, people covered the sculptures in Strasbourg with black veils to commemorate the ceded Lorraine area.

During the war, a shell hit the Notre Dame Church in Saint-Sulpice, where Hugo and Adele were married.

There are many things that God is powerless to do. A clay or wood sculpture cannot even protect itself, although in legend it is omnipotent and even created a world.

So what does a useless god believe in?

Severus and Goncey followed the mirror, which was very good at finding things, to the old site of Place de Châtelet. In 1870, this place was still very spacious. Now there is only a long strip of lawn leading to the Invalides.

It is actually on the extension of Napoleon's catacombs. There is an ordinary fountain on the lawn, and the fountain is surrounded by church properties.

There are schools, shops, churches and a meeting place for the French Bishops' Conference here, as if this is a small town in Paris.

From the map, the northeast of the "town" is the residence of the Duke of Bourbon-Condé, but what is more eye-catching is the Eiffel Tower that seems to be very close. This was criticized by Victor Hugo as ugly, and he jointly opposed it.

Things are now illuminated by lights, and there is a searchlight-like device on the top of the tower. Countless couples and tourists from all over the world are taking photos around it.

"Hey, I thought of it." Gong Saiyi said loudly, "Moon!"

"What?" Severus asked grimly.

"After the heliocentric theory became popular, all other planets revolve around the sun, and only the moon still revolves around the earth." Gong Saiyi said briskly, "The distance from where we stand to Les Invalides is closer than the Champ de Mars. If the Champ de Mars represents

It’s Mars, and this place represents the moon.”

Severus remained silent as he looked at the golden dome of Les Invalides in the distance.

In the third story on the seventh day of the Decameron, the monk named Linado used religious connections to have a secret meeting with the mother of his godson. Unexpectedly, one day the woman's husband suddenly came back. In order to get through, he

The woman told a lie, saying that her and her husband's son suddenly fainted and was almost dead, and that it was Brother Linado, the child's godfather, who saved him.

She said that there was a worm in the child's belly that had almost penetrated into his heart. Brother Linado drove the worm away by chanting a spell.

This was also in Italy in the 16th century. The husband actually believed it. Friar Linardo also persuaded the husband to make a wax figure exactly like the child and place it in front of the shrine of St. Ambrose instead of the shrine from Milan. The husband not only

He obeyed the monk's advice, entertained him with fine wine, and personally sent Brother Linado and his companions away from home.

There is a nursing home in the "small town" open to poor retired elderly people, run by nuns. Even if there was no Black Death, those monks with fat heads, red faces, and bulging chests and belly when walking would not have any parishioners.

I really love them. Their cellar is full of bottles of fine wine, boxes of candies and snacks, and large and small bottles of perfume and ointment. It doesn’t look like a monk’s cellar, but like a spice merchant’s shop.

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What's even worse is that people know their scandals, and they are not ashamed. A serious monk should be abstinent. In addition to living a miserable life, staying up late for a long time, praying and observing the precepts will make people look pale and haggard. Moreover, these monks only

Wearing wool clothes, dyed in ocher, they are not covered in silk and satin like them, so the people are unwilling to pay tithes.

The saint Ambrose in the story was one of the four great doctors of the church. He was born in 340 and was born into a Roman noble. His father was the prefect of Gaul. He died of illness while in office, and his widowed mother returned to Rome with her children.

Ambrose was smart and studious, proficient in Greek, and was a famous orator and poet. He had worked in the legal profession. Emperor Valentinian made him governor of Liguria and Emilia, with the governor's palace in Milan.

The two provinces of Liguria and Emilia were very important in Western Rome. Ambrose was only 32 years old at the time. By 374, the bishop of Milan was vacant, and there were disputes over the successor. Some people wanted to choose a bishop who supported orthodox doctrine, and some wanted to elect a bishop who supported orthodox doctrine.

People wanted to elect Arian heretics as bishops. In order to maintain order at the scene, Ambrose personally went to the church as governor to lecture the electors and persuaded them to elect peacefully. At this time, someone shouted, "Let Ambrose be the bishop."

Ambrose was both talented and virtuous, and he was what the people wanted, so they responded unanimously and unanimously asked Ambrose to serve as the bishop of Milan. Ambrose refused to accept the position and wrote to the emperor to report the matter, but the emperor wrote to let Ambrose serve as bishop.

Believers will be baptized at birth, but Ambrose was already 34 years old when he was ordained and baptized. From then on, he completely broke away from the world and donated all his furniture and chattels to charities.

He gave it to the church, leaving only a small part of the money for his sister, and gave the title to his brother.

As soon as Ambrose became bishop, he wrote to the emperor and reported many illegal behaviors of officials. The emperor really investigated the people he reported to and revised a book to thank him for his corrections.

Ambrose's life was extremely difficult. He refused to attend any banquets and served the parish all day long. He greatly appreciated chastity in order to devote himself to the Lord. There were many virgins in the diocese, and at the request of his sister, he edited the article about chastity.

It was written into a book and often promoted in sermons.

Many mothers did not allow their daughters to listen to the Bishop of Milan's sermons, fearing that they would not get married after hearing this. Ambrose retorted after hearing this: "Which young man wants to get married but can't find a wife? Which city has a population decrease because there are too many chaste women?"

Woolen cloth?"

The official division of Rome began in 395 when Theodosius divided the territory between his two sons when he died, but Rome was already divided before him.

At that time, not only was the empire divided, but the church was also in a precarious situation, with Arian heretics inside and the worship of the Goddess of Victory outside. In 383, Emperor Gratian of Western Rome was killed by Maximus, a rebel in Britain, and Gratian was killed.

Deeply influenced by Ambrose, the emperor advocated respect for the church and ordered the statue of the Goddess of Victory enshrined in the Senate to be moved out.

After the emperor's death, the senators planned to resume worshiping the goddess of victory. The leader was Simachus, the son of the Roman prefect. Simachus was a scholar. He wrote to Maximus' son, Emperor Victor, hoping to rebuild the statue.

In the end Ambrose won, and the Victory statue did not return to the Senate.

"The goddess of the moon or the goddess of victory?" Severus whispered.

"What?" Gong Saiyi asked, perhaps because the night wind blew Severus's voice into pieces.

"Let's go to the church and see."

"Wizards enter the church?" Gong Saiyi said with a strange expression.

"As long as you don't say it loudly, no one will know you are a wizard." Severus said, "Not to mention I am the godfather, let's go."

As he spoke, he pushed Gong Saiyi's shoulders and walked towards the church in the northeast corner of the fountain.
Chapter completed!