Chapter 2254 Fierce Fire Frenzy (14)

Saint Nicholas is the prototype of Santa Claus. However, when Belgium celebrates Saint Nicholas Day, there is no one wearing red clothes, carrying a big bag, driving a reindeer sleigh playing Santa Claus, but someone wearing a big beard playing the role of a cardinal.

According to legend, Saint Nicholas heard that the three daughters of a poor family could not get married because they had no money to pay for dowries, so he secretly gave the family three bags of gold coins and threw them in through the window, which happened to fall on the drying tube in front of the fireplace.

Later, there were many children in the world who sat by the fire on Christmas Eve, waiting for "Santa Claus" to put gifts into their socks.

Lily didn't believe in Santa Claus for a long time, probably because Petunia told her that it was not Santa Claus who put the gifts in their socks, but their parents.

In the town of Saint-Nicolas, Georgiana got a lot of chocolates, more than she could eat by herself. She also gave some to other entourage, which everyone accepted happily. Only then did Georgiana realize that Bonaparte was going to turn around and go back.

Because of Christmas, other people have families waiting for them to go back. They are on a "business trip" for work. If they can go home for Christmas reunion, of course they should go back as soon as possible.

Sugar shipped from the British colonies and cocoa shipped from the Portuguese Congo make up this bitter-sweet delicacy. The welcome banquet organized by Rana also included a chocolate fountain and various chocolate sculptures, not just for Belgian celebrities.

, even celebrities from the Netherlands and Denmark gathered together, and the gorgeous skirt made by Georgiana came in handy.

Bertin was proud to tell everyone who inquired that the design of the skirt was inspired by Homer's epic Iliad and was reproduced based on the sacrifice given to Athena. As for the sequins, they were all diamond fragments. From Antwerp

There are more diamond processors than Bruges. The huge diamond that is said to be a Mughal diamond was very big and heavy. Georgiana did not use it as a necklace. Instead, she asked a local craftsman to make it into a belt and set it in white gold in the shape of a snowflake.

The base is surrounded by a circle of aquamarine.

She wore a dark sapphire curved necklace around her neck, a sapphire forehead ornament on her head, and two bracelets on her wrists, but she insisted on only wearing one ring, otherwise she would have a hand full of large gold rings.

This kind of occasion could not be simple. Bonaparte, who was wearing a green marshal's uniform, also put on his Prince Regent's sword. If the crown was not a very sensitive piece of jewelry, Georgiana would have wanted to wear it.

Voldemort was once very interested in jewelry, especially jewelry belonging to famous people. If the Gaunt family were still prominent, he might live like a prince instead of receiving relief like a child in an orphanage.

It is magic that makes him special. According to the right of inheritance, he hopes to have a Hamlet-like history. He must defeat the wizard uncle who stole his father's "crown" in order to get everything he "deserves."

However, he is an illegitimate child, and he is an illegitimate child who was abandoned by his Muggle father and not recognized by him.

The direct line of Lancastrians who lost the War of the Roses was wiped out. Only the branch that fled to France still had some people left. John of Gaunt, like Philip I of Habsburg in Spain, chose to join the Castile

Kingdom marriage, but Constance brought a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and other wealth, while Joanna took most of Spain as a dowry.

According to the "Code Napoleon", if the mirror is not mounted on the wall and is as "firm" as a permanent affixing spell, then it is real estate, and it must be divided according to the real estate when dividing the family.

Maybe farmers who love to go to the market don't care about their rights. What are the chances of them encountering a lawsuit in their lifetime? But French women, especially intellectual women like Madame de Staël, understand how disadvantageous the new civil code is to them.

Sometimes women will make some evil assumptions when they are together, for example, their husbands use their dowries to support their mistresses. Why can't they get a divorce in this situation?

Even Edgeworth would stay away from women at this time, and his friends also used women's dowries to do some very risky business. Although they won in the end, many people with similar experiences to them ended up losing money.

Even if it's a small matter, they usually still owe a lot of debt. How do they live in such a life?

There is an article in the Civil Code that states that without the assistance of an assistant appointed by the court, a wasteful person is prohibited from litigating, conciliating, borrowing money, receiving the original copy of movable property and handing over the receipt certificate, transferring or liquidating his property.

The act of establishing a mortgage right.

In the Law of the Twelve Tables, wasteful people are like mental patients and have no right to deal with their own property. The "wasteful people" in the Civil Code include not only women, but also some men.

The promotion of the sugar refinery in Ghent was so easy this time because of the help of the Archbishop of Ghent. Napoleon returned the confiscated 80,000 franc annuity to his nieces. The Archbishop of Ghent was French, and his nieces were also French nobles. France

After the outbreak of the Revolution, they ran to Belgium to join their uncle. Now they want to return to China, but they have missed the deadline set by Napoleon.

In the past, this annuity would not be enough for one of them, let alone divided among several people, but now they have to live a "hard life". What's more, Georgiana also needs someone to hold her skirt, and the Duchess holds the skirt for the king's favored mistress.

It was already customary to show off, and the archbishop's nieces didn't mind at all after getting the "promise".

The nobles would not be like beggars shouting "Well done" on the street. They would dress decently, show up at the ball, bow to Napoleon and express their surrender to get some "arrangements". Mechelen had the Habsburgs

The Supreme Council of the Fort family, and these nobles have intricate connections in Belgium, such as an uncle who is an archbishop.

Some noble families in the Middle Ages would send their second son or other sons to a monastery. This did not mean that they were abandoning them. If the son became successful in the church, it would also bring benefits to the secular family.

In the summer of 1781, Archduke Joseph II of Austria visited Belgium. At that time, the people responded indifferently to his arrival. In the following years, the policies he implemented in Belgium encountered many open resistances.

No one knows what the strong winds coming from Italy are planning to do now. They turned the deep-water port of Antwerp into a port that can only carry flat-bottomed boats. No one protested because of "historical issues". Canals are too troublesome and not as easy as roads or railways on the ground.

After all, it is real estate, and water does not return to the nest like bees. Bees returning to the nest are also counted as real estate.

Now Antwerp has an almost fanatical feeling for Napoleon. There is no need to follow the magicians who travel with him. The Antwerp people themselves arrange celebrations every day.

However, Georgiana was still scolded after the ball. How should I put it? The traditional dress of Belgian women is white. When Lana came to "pick her up", there were two to three hundred girls in white skirts wearing garlands, and

With the same number of cavalry, Georgiana's white dress sprinkled with diamond powder was not conspicuous among them.

She wanted to ridicule him, wondering if he should be like the honor guards following him, also wearing a feather on their head, the feather almost touching the ceiling.

But she still called Bertin to see if there was any way to save it.

Unexpectedly, Bertin had already prepared. When making Georgiana's "gift to the goddess", she also made other long dresses.

Napoleon loved Egypt, and there were Egyptian decorations everywhere he appeared. There was also a large copper Egyptian-style vase in the Tuileries Palace.

But the problem is that she is not going to a costume party. Halloween has already passed, so why is she dressed as Cleopatra?

Unexpectedly, her idea was easily satisfied. Mrs. Larner said, why not have a masquerade party? The venue was in the new botanical garden.

Georgiana looked at the mysterious smile on her face and felt that it was not that simple.
Chapter completed!