Chapter 1897 father’s watch (5)

Many people who come to work in this garden are from the town of Sèvres, which is not far from Versailles and Saint-Luc. Sometimes they hear some rumors from the palace.

Illness and death are not uncommon in the Palace of Versailles. Once the last breath leaves the body of a royal member, his or her gilded bedroom will become a butcher's shop. And those nobles or maids who accompanied the deceased throughout their life are often in a

A state of grief, but whether they were really sad about the death of the deceased or worried about their future, they had to stand beside the bed and witness it all as the body of the deceased was cut into pieces.

The doctor must find out the cause of death of the deceased, whether it was due to poisoning or disease or infectious disease. If it was poisoning, none of the people accompanying him would be able to escape. In order to prevent anyone from saying that he was framed.

, so they had to witness the dissection process.

Generally speaking, there will be a lamp next to it. After slicing the belly, the first thing to be taken out is the liver. The most obvious sign of poisoning is the liver. If there is no problem, it will be placed in a silver tray and given to a duke.

Madam, next came the heart. Seven or eight doctors recorded their findings and then announced the cause of death.

In addition to the abdominal cavity, the skull also had to be opened. When Louis XIV died, Prince Condé was found to have a tumor in his head, which explained his later crazy and frightening behavior.

However, this kind of madness is still much worse than that of the girls in the harem, because they all know that if they are favored by the king, they can get everything. The absolute royal power has all the power to exercise and own everything in the kingdom, unlike a country with a constitutional monarchy.

The king is subject to various restrictions and can do whatever he wants.

Pleasure and dancing are the main themes in the palace. Outsiders call it the Palace of Sans Souci. There are no worries or worries in it. If there are too many masquerade balls, they feel they are not new, so they try to figure out how to hold balls with new themes. Nobles and

Gentlemen would eat oysters and drink champagne in luxurious restaurants. Compared with Napoleon's heirs, the Bourbon dynasty spread out quickly. Madame Montespan and Louis XIV had 7 illegitimate children, not including

Born by him and another mistress.

However, such a high birth rate became insignificant in the face of an equally high death rate. Versailles was also a place where infectious diseases were rampant, and Louis XV died of smallpox.

When Napoleon's army was stationed in Versailles, they soon discovered that there were no toilets. Even if there were toilets, they were only for the use of a very small number of nobles. Most ordinary nobles would deal with them on the spot when they had nowhere to go. This is true.

Just like the poor people in Paris.

Bonaparte had encountered the problem of attrition due to infectious diseases. Places where so many people gathered needed clean water and good sewage. He was not like the traditional old aristocrats who felt that perfume could cover up the smell and they could not see it.

The streets are full of shit.

Even though the "hills of shit" that have accumulated for centuries outside the city have begun to be removed and moved to places further away from the city to make fertilizers, the city of Paris still stinks. I came back from the outside and breathed in the fresh air for a long time.

Nabal couldn't stand the smell and planned to make improvements, but his proposal to build a public toilet was not accepted because he had to pay to use the toilet.

If the toilet is dirty, someone must clean it, right? Someone must clear it, right? When we cleared the barricades, we paid the workers. Of course, we also have to pay the ladies who clean the toilets and the "sweepers," right?

A local official once banned locals from urinating on a village street, which aroused protests from the villagers. What's more, Paris itself is a huge public toilet. Charles V once issued a pardon requiring every house to be equipped with a latrine, but

No one paid attention, so the pardon was forgotten like urine in the wind.

Some people have related this issue to morality. In addition to public baths and public toilets, ancient Rome also had public toilets. Although theoretically people would not do the same things in public toilets as in bathrooms, but who knows what the real situation was like?

So when the toilets could not be built in the city, they first built the toilets in the restored palace. Initially, they were opposed. People thought that it would destroy the layout of the entire palace. Later, the School of Architecture produced many design drawings. In short, from the appearance

Those exquisite houses don't look like toilets at all, which solves the problem.

People have always been busy destroying public utilities, which are an important part of public life. In the past, the king gave the order and the ministers were responsible for executing it, such as the Palace of Versailles and the Seal Garden. Now Bonaparte has forgotten to repair the toilet.

It was given to the council, or rather to the scholars who had followed him to Egypt before, to weigh in on their own.

The establishment of public undertakings is not included in the parliamentary powers stipulated in the constitution. First, it requires judicial supervision, and second, it needs to meet the needs of common interests at all levels. No one is willing to do some public undertakings if they are unprofitable. Of course,

Clean streets will please the bourgeoisie, but paying a tax every time you use the toilet is a big burden for low-income families. Later, some people targeted fertilizer factories, and they were responsible for paying for toilet repairs.

That department is actually very profitable, and there are wealthy people who are willing to pay people to pick up excrement. They can make a fortune by making fertilizer or gunpowder raw materials, and the workers are prisoners, so there is basically no cost.

But the last time the "fertilizer sale" was so successful, it was because of the power of the central government and the forcible use of toll taxes to buy it. Each city could not build fertilizer plants like Paris.

Haji has always heard that France is slow in efficiency, but now he has learned a lot.

"Foreigners, do you think public toilets should be paid?" a cheerful woman asked Haji.

"It shouldn't be." Haji said directly.

"Then who will pay us for cleaning the toilet?" the woman asked again.

"Isn't it disgusting for you to keep talking about the bathroom?" said a man with a serious expression.

"None of your business!" the woman said aggressively.

"You just talked about Madame Montespan. What did she do before?" Haji asked.

No one spoke now.

But the women obviously wanted to say something, but they just looked left and right, as if they were afraid that someone would see them.

"If you don't tell me, I will." said a younger village girl. "Someone has falsely accused Madame Montespan of intending to poison the king."

"Don't talk nonsense." A man warned the young girl.

"At that time, there was a poison maker named Lavoisin. She specially made a love potion to confuse the king. Didn't you say before that Madame Sèvres drugged the milk tea? You said she drugged the king to keep loving her.

I believe it, but I don't believe it if she says she poisoned the king and his new love." The young girl ignored the warning and continued, "What's more, Madame de Montespan is not the only customer of Lavozan.

There is no evidence that they are poisoners."

"What's wrong with the king?" Haji asked.

"It's not the king." A middle-aged village woman murmured towards the box containing the body. "It was the little bitch who died. They had a fierce fight at that time. In order to rectify the atmosphere, the king imprisoned many scum in Vincennes Prison.

There was a man named Lesage, who confessed in prison what Lavoisin had done, just to get out of that place, including her and Madame de Montespan's attempt to poison the king. This happened many years later

If we didn’t dare to say it before, wouldn’t it be a revolution now?”

"Is that girl involved?" Haji asked.

"Who knows, I'll check it when I'm an official." The woman took a sip of lemonade. "Mrs. Montespan spent her whole life begging for something, but it was picked up by a nanny. She was called 'the real queen of France' her whole life, but

Nothing is as real as a wedding."
Chapter completed!