Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1666 The Secret Words of the Goddess ([-])

Paris in the 19th century still had traces of medieval Paris. The streets were rough and not as smooth as Versailles. It was not easy to sketch on a shaking carriage, but Jacques-Louis David did it anyway. He used The pencil painted the last portrait of Marie Antoinette who was going to the Revolution Square in a prison van before her execution. This kind of pure line portrait can be drawn by any artist on the streets of Paris.

Women's hair is precious, and they won't cut it off easily unless there are special reasons, but Marie Antoinette's hair was cut off at that time, this is to cut off the head smoothly when the guillotine falls. The neck must be exposed on the guillotine, so all the hair must be cut above the hairline of the back of the neck.

Cleopatra Marie's hair was randomly cut off before leaving for the execution ground and can only be covered by an ugly hat, but some hair is still irregular and upturned, which is reflected in David's sketch.

In addition to the ugly hat, she was also wearing a simple dress. Even though her figure was still slender and her breasts did not sag, this outfit was completely different from when she was gorgeously dressed and noble.

While Madame de Pompidou is the godmother of the Rococo style, no one embodies the style of the eighteenth century better than Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born rose who really bloomed in Versailles. She just married When I was a child in France, I sometimes went to the northwest of Place Louis XV to learn how to play the piano to adapt to the life of the French court.

Maybe she gets tired from playing the piano occasionally, and when she becomes inattentive, she will look out the window through a window and look at the scenery outside the window, but she probably never dreamed that one day she would be so embarrassed that she would sit in a rickety car with her hands tied behind her back. On the carriage, such an ugly appearance was depicted by a painter.

David is good at painting death, and he also painted the death of Marat in the Louvre. If he is a policeman, then he is the one holding the camera and taking pictures of the dead.

But Mary was still alive at that time, her mouth, which was of the Habsburg family blood, was tightly pursed, and the corners of her mouth were turned down, fully expressing her displeasure. Such a vivid expression would not appear on the face of a dead person, but This is indeed the last portrait of Marie Antoinette. When the prison car arrives at the Revolution Square, "Mr. Gray" will see her off for the last time. Maybe she is really as the legend says, because she accidentally Step on the executioner's foot and say sorry, and then the deficit left by this "deficit queen" will be washed away with her blood.

Severus looked at the sketch hanging on the wall of the National Library of France, it was far less exquisite than other colorful portraits, and even passers-by didn't bother to stay on the sketch at all.

Compared with the 13 billion military expenditures spent by Louis XVI in the War of Independence, how much money can Mary spend on dressing up?
The War of Independence was actually a continuation of the Seven Years' War. Louis XVI, who had just ascended the throne, was ambitious. He wanted to restore the reputation of France's defeat and at the same time establish his own prestige, so he invested regardless of the consequences.

However, 200 years later, the American people have long forgotten the assistance of France in the War of Independence, believing that the War of Independence was won by the founding fathers of the United States themselves.

What extravagance brings is the social atmosphere. One termite can't eat much, but a group of termites can hollow out the beams of the house. Later, France encountered natural disasters, food shortages, and a large sum of money was borrowed for disaster relief. After these It is difficult to tell how much money fell to the people after the moth's hands.

Seeing the unattainable price of food, the common people were so desperate that they took risks. Rumors began to spread in the market. When Queen Mary heard that the people couldn’t afford bread, she asked, “Why don’t they eat cakes?” The words are very similar.

At that time, China was in the era of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the chaos of the Five Dynasties led to the misery of the people. This was not what Liu Bei's son A Dou said during the Three Kingdoms period.

During the Enlightenment Movement in the 18th century, Chinese culture played an extremely important role, and many thinkers and economists became interested in "compassion to farmers".

In order to make farmers' lives better, food became free trade, and then it got out of hand.

Grain is a necessity for everyone, and someone will definitely buy it. A large amount of "living money" enters the grain market, which is the same as many "tulip crazes". Wherever the "living money" goes, the price of a certain commodity will change. It is very expensive, and this kind of mania usually blows up a bubble, which disappears as soon as the living money is taken away, and the commodity returns to its original price, but food is different from other commodities.

Early human civilization was divided into farming and nomadic. Farming can obtain stable food. You don’t need to live by water and grass like nomads. You spend a lot of time on the road. With time and enough material foundation to develop civilization, ancient Egypt, India, This is true of China, and even the Aztec civilization. These civilizations left many buildings as proof of their existence. The nomads lacked these and spent more time conquest than construction.

The barbarism of the Mongols does not mean that they are mentally retarded. Europeans were also barbaric. Not only did they not take a bath, but their table manners were also ugly. The tip of the table knife at that time was not oval like it is now. Because of Archbishop Richelieu, he really couldn't stand the habit of the nobles picking their teeth with table knives, and ordered the servants to round all the tips of the table knives, so that there were Western-style table knives.

In the National Library of France there is an oval hall, formerly known as the Richelieu Room.

Napoleon signed the edict of abdication in the White Horse Hall in Fontainebleau, which is also an oval courtyard.

"Thank you," Severus said, looking at Marie Antoinette's sketch, before turning and walking toward the Oval Hall.

Around the huge oval glass dome are the names of world-renowned cities, one of which is pekin, which originally meant the capital in the north, but European missionaries directly translated it according to the Latin transliteration, and its metal nameplate It's right next to Jerusalem, but it's hard to reach from the ground, and it's definitely out of the reach of ordinary ladders anyway.

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Felix, Alejandro and Hage and Madame Loris ran to the Place de San Hybeus.

Originally, the distance between them was not far, and it took about 10 minutes to run. Alejandro, who had participated in the school football team, and Haji, who had served in the army, could bear it, and Felix could run a little bit. Out of breath.

One is that he is young, and the other is that he has not systematically exercised. He is also the most stinged by bees.

Although his face was swollen, he didn't have an allergic reaction, so Haji ignored him, and then Haji asked Alessandro about his next itinerary.

"Are you going to go now?" Haji asked.

Alejandro looked around, then at his watch.

"We need to hurry up." Alejandro lowered his wrist. "I'll search the parking lot."

"I think we'd better investigate first," Hage said. "Like we did at the Place de la Concorde."

"There are only four old people in this fountain. What can we study?" Alejandro asked.

"Anyway, let's take a look first." Haji said helplessly, "Maybe we can find some clues."

"I'll go to the church," said Alejandro, and walked towards the church to the east of the fountain.

(End of this chapter)