Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1569 The Treasure of Saint-Denis ([-])

However prominent Saint-Denis was once, it is now deserted.

It looks good from a distance, but when you walk in, you will find that there are weeds everywhere, and the legendary beautiful stained glass has been destroyed, the burnt benches are dumped on the ground, and the ground is full of gravel.

These broken stones may come from the sculptures of kings, queens, princesses, princes, or the sculptures of the apostles on the 12 columns.

It should be a beautiful church when it is still intact, especially the cloister-like windows in the back of the chapel, where it is said that the choir used to sing.

The orientation of the church is facing east and west. When the sun rises, the light will shine in from the corridor behind the chapel, covering the entire altar in a halo of holy light.

At this moment, the sun was slanting to the west, and the sunlight came in through the open door of the church. The place where the tomb used to be was dug up, and the dark cemetery seemed to be a bottomless abyss. The air smelled of burnt stones, The smell of gunpowder and thyme and frankincense.

"Those who broke into the church were going to burn it down to destroy the evidence," Bercier said. "It's just that the fire didn't start."

"They're made of stone, not wood," Denon said, looking at the building materials.

"This place seems to have experienced the end of the world, and it was all destroyed." Kanova couldn't help but said.

No one answered his words. Napoleon was standing in front of the altar of the church in civilian clothes at the moment. Pepin might have stood in the same position as him 1000 years ago.

The wind blew in casually through the window without glass, and it sounded like some kind of crying.

"Where do you think those treasures will be hidden?" Bercier asked enthusiastically.

"St. Louis collected a lot of sacred objects, the blood of Christ, the milk of Mary, he also bought a true cross from Baldwin II, and of course the most famous crown of thorns. Do you think these things are valuable?" asked Denon.

Bercier snorted.

"I heard that there is a Gutenberg Bible in the treasure of Saint-Denis," Canova said.

"Do you think the Gutenberg Bible is valuable?" Denon asked Georgiana very worldly.

The Gutenberg Bible is the earliest known Bible printed with movable type, and it is named after a Venetian printer named Giovanni Gutenberg.

But it was, at bottom, no more than a book printed on parchment, not as beautifully bound as the Grimani Prayer looted from the library of San Marco in Venice.

"I have heard another rumor," said Georgiana. "That book is not a Bible."

"What book is that?" Canova asked.

"You know that Louis IX has been to Egypt." Georgiana said, "It's just that he is not like you. He was delayed for several months after arriving in Alexandria, and you seized the opportunity to attack."

"You mean to say that the book came from Egypt?" asked Bersier.

"I also hope it is, preferably dug out of the Nile River." Georgiana smiled and said, "Louis IX has to go to mass twice a day, and he has to read the "Hail Mary" 50 times before going to bed, and he has to get up early to attend morning prayers." Of course, he took it with him when he went to Egypt. Later, he led his troops to attack Egypt ruled by the descendants of Saladin. After occupying Damietta Port, he encountered a plague and came to fight..."

"Okay, we all know that Louis IX was captured by the Sultan's concubine and slave guards, and then?" Bersier interrupted Georgiana impatiently.

"Do you think Saladin's descendants will allow Louis IX to continue to insist on mass and read the Holy Mary before going to bed?" Georgiana asked, "He has read the Holy Mary so many times, and he still needs to follow the book Do you want to read it?"

"You mean, the Abbey of Saint-Denis has the Hail Mary?" Denon murmured.

"During the period of Louis IX, a large number of French Gothic buildings appeared, and foreign students gathered in Paris. The Saint-Denis Church was also built during this period. Because of its reputation for justice, Louis was selected as the arbitrator on many occasions."

"And he was the builder of the Paris City Hall." Napoleon said suddenly, "Have you ever been to the City Hall?"

"I have been." Georgiana said coldly, "I was applying for the right to wear pants."

"Did you see the ship, then?" asked Bonaparte.

"ferry?"

"That's the earliest symbol of Paris." Bonaparte walked over leisurely with his hat in hand. "Do you still remember the Charles V I told you about?"

Georgiana nodded.

"When the good John was captured, the mayor of Paris was Étienne Marcel. Louis IX established the Paris municipal organization so that when he led the expeditionary force to fight, someone could manage the city instead of him. 12 At the beginning of the 200th century, the water trade in Paris became very developed, and the "boatman" became a wealthy businessman. The first mayor of Paris was elected from these people, and the symbol of the city became a boat, where they gave orders. Known as the "column room", which is now the Paris City Hall, but now this Renaissance building was rebuilt [-] years after the death of Etienne Marcel. The original "column room" has been demolished because , when Charles V left Paris was coerced by Étienne Marcel."

"I know that history," Georgiana said pitifully.

When the good man John was captured, Prince Charles was the only one. At that time, Prince Charles wanted to consolidate his regency power and participated in the government, but he ignored that the Valois family lost credibility among the people because of successive military defeats.

So the mayor of Paris, Étienne Marcel, together with the bishop of Paris, issued a decree declaring that the entire country would be governed by all groups, including nobles, priests and bourgeoisie.

"If Lyoncourt said to Louis XVI 'No, your majesty, this is a revolution.' Charles V had the situation of 'Your majesty, this is a riot' when Marcel put The blue and red hat that symbolizes Paris is worn on the head of Charles V, which represents the city's promise to protect the safety of the prince, do you know the difference?"

Napoleon asked like a teacher.

"The church was destroyed?" Bersier looked at the ruins around him and asked with a smile.

"Is there any military involved?" Canova asked.

"And you?" Bonaparte asked Georgiana.

"Why don't you ask Denon?" she said angrily.

"And do you know the answer?" asked Bonaparte.

Georgiana shook her head.

"It's the third level established by Marcel." Denon said. "Do you understand what the third level is?"

Georgiana, like most Englishmen, had no conception of the third degree of the French.

"The mayor of Paris began to establish a new order after the prince fled, and he later met Charles II, grandson of Louis X of the Capet family, and John II, a collateral of Valois, Marseille Charles wanted to establish a country ruled by all subjects without a king, so he rejected Charles II. After Charles V fled, he organized an army and planned to recapture the capital. Charles II had the support of the British and opposed Paris. A blockade was imposed, and the whole city began to lack food, so when Étienne Marcel was inspecting the defenses of the city, some people surrounded him, shouting the slogan 'montjoie saint denis', and then like Like decomposing prey, Marcel was divided into pieces with an ax and a sword. Two days later, Prince Charles entered the city and announced the conspiracy of Etienne Marcel and the wicked Charlie to let the British army enter the city. The power of the mayor has been marked on many houses in Paris. The people who lived in these marked houses were all loyal to France and the king. Since then, there has been no mayor in Paris, and the original "pillar house" has also been destroyed. Take it back, until..." Bonaparte left the end of the sentence, but everyone knew that "the deputy mayor of Saint-Denis was chased into the street by the mob, and he later ran into the church. The top was beheaded, he is not like Saint-Denis, who can walk from Paris to Montmartre with his head cut off."

"My God," Georgiana murmured, "Leon Kuhl, what trouble have you gotten yourself into?"

"Do you know why the tombs of the previous French kings are all on the ground, but the Bourbon royal family is in the basement?" Bonaparte asked again.

"Because there's no room?" Georgiana looked around at the graves.

"Let's go and see." Bonaparte said with a smile, "Are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid of ghosts," said Georgiana, but of living men with axes and swords.

"Let's go." Bonaparte said, dismantled the legs of a chair, and started to make torches.

Georgiana wanted to use fluorescent flashes, and then followed him to make a torch.

Since she's not Grindelwald, she'd prefer to include in the code a ban on lynching for witchcraft charges, which is part of the new order she wants.

Nietzsche once told a story that one day Zarathustra, who was on his way, fell asleep under a tree, and suddenly a snake bit his neck. Woke up and was about to flee, but Zarathust said, "You have not yet received my thanks for calling me up and on my way."

The snake said, "My venom will kill you, and you have no chance to go on your way."

But Zarathust laughed and said, "Has ever a dragon been bitten to death by a snake? Take back your venom, you are not rich enough to give it to me."

So the snake crawled up to his neck and sucked the venom.

Although this is a story, it tells people a truth, to respect people who don't like you.

She felt that it was best not to be so arrogant in someone else's territory.

"Let's go," said Napoleoni, holding up the lighted torches, but Bersier went ahead first, accompanied by two other guides.

"I won't go down anymore." Kanova said, "I'll take a look up there."

"Me too," Denon said.

Georgiana followed Napoleoni to the basement.

Unlike the tall and light Gothic on the ground, the underground of Saint-Denis is Roman-style, with thick walls and no windows, much like the hiding place of former believers.

Perhaps it was because Louis XV's corpse was really smelly, and the air was not circulating. After so many years, there was still a stench mixed with gunpowder smoke, which made people sick, but the few people in front seemed to be used to it.

"Do you think Louis IX's queen is competent?" Bonaparte asked Georgiana.

"She collected the ransom," Georgiana said dryly. "And she's a woman. There are many places that depend on the mayor of Paris."

"You idiot," he snarled, before turning his head to look straight ahead.

Georgiana ignored him.

It is not so easy to find a housekeeper. A woman who spends money on dressing up will definitely look better than one who does not spend money on dressing up. Marrying a beautiful princess home is certainly pleasing to the eye, but "queens" and "princesses" are different.

"Crack."

Napoleoni removed his boots, shone a light with a torch, and found glass shards all over the floor.

"How can there be glass here?" Georgiana asked. "There are also windows in the underground?"

No one answered her, and they continued down the stairs.

Soon they came to a sort of atrium, where there was a "ruin" made up of glass mountains.

"It seemed to be something before," said Bercier, sweeping the torch over the pile of glass, and the multicolored glass shone beautifully, like gems.

"Someone may have swept the shards of glass upstairs here." A guide said.

"Can you do it?" Napoleoni asked her.

Georgian said nothing.

"Can it work?" He tilted his head to look at her.

"This is the church," Georgiana said. "Please show some respect and courtesy."

"Do it!" he ordered.

Georgiana gave up after hesitating and struggling for 2 seconds.

She raised her wand and used "Restore to First" on the pile of glass.

The shattered glass spliced ​​together at a miraculous speed, and even the glass that had been trampled into slag on the road came over, and soon became a box full of glass.

Georgiana used a fluorescent flash against the hollow glass, and the light filtered through the glass, leaving a shadow on the low ceiling with a line of Latin writing on it.

"Your choice determines your happiness." Georgiana stared at the characters and translated, "I thought it was a map."

The three men stared at the ceiling without speaking.

Georgiana placed the other pieces of glass in the box, and this time it was the rose window that appeared on the ceiling.

She changed a few pieces of glass, and except for the different styles, they were all rose windows.

"It seems that this is only used to design rose windows." She said boringly.

"It was a worthwhile trip." Bonaparte said with a smile, "What do you think?"

"Your choice determines your happiness. This sentence will become my family motto." Bercier also said with a smile, "You have worked so hard, it is worth it."

"That's right, it's worth it." The other two guides agreed immediately.

"Hahaha." Bonaparte laughed triumphantly.

"What are you talking about?" Georgiana asked confused.

No one paid any attention to her. They continued to walk in after a short stay. After several searches inside, and later excavations were already dilapidated, and there was nothing to discover, so they returned to the ground.

They took all the glass she had magically restored before leaving.

Now the basement is completely empty, and there are no other residents except rats and snakes. I am afraid that the only way to find the treasure of Saint-Denis is to find other clues.

(End of this chapter)