Harry Potter Morning Light

St. Nicholas is the prototype of Santa Claus. However, during the St. Nicholas Festival in Belgium, no one wore red clothes, carried a big bag, and drove a reindeer sleigh to play Santa Claus. Instead, someone wore a beard and played a cardinal.

According to legend, St. Nicholas heard that the three daughters of a poor family could not get married because they had no money to buy dowry, so he secretly sent three bags of gold coins to the family, and threw them through the window, just in front of the fireplace. Then there are many more children in the world sitting by the fire on Christmas Eve, waiting for "Santa Claus" to put the presents in the socks.

Lily had long since disbelieved in Santa, probably because Petunia had told her that it wasn't Santa who put presents in their stockings, but their parents.

In St. Nicholas, Georgiana got so much chocolate that she couldn't finish it all by herself, and gave some to the rest of the entourage, which they all happily accepted. Only then did Georgiana discover the reason why Bonaparte turned around and went back for Christmas. Others had families waiting for them to go back.

Sugar from the British colonies and cocoa from the Portuguese Congo make up this bittersweet delicacy. There are also chocolate fountains and various chocolate sculptures at the welcome banquet organized by Lana, not just Belgian celebrities. , Even celebrities from Holland and Denmark gathered together, and the gorgeous dress made by Georgiana came in handy.

Bertin proudly told everyone who inquired that the design of the dress was inspired by Homer's Iliad, and it was reproduced based on the sacrifices given to Athena. As for the sequins, they were all diamond fragments. There are more diamond processors in Antwerp than in Bruges. The huge and heavy diamond Georgiana, which is said to be a Mughal diamond, was not used as a necklace. Instead, it was made into a belt by local craftsmen and inlaid in the shape of a snowflake. A ring of aquamarines surrounds it on a platinum backing.

She wore a dark sapphire curved necklace around her neck, a sapphire crown on her head, and two bracelets on her wrists, but she insisted on wearing only one ring, otherwise she would have a lot of big gold rings on her hands.

The occasion could not have been more austere, and Bonaparte, in the green uniform of the Marshal, also put on his regent's sword, which Georgiana would have liked to have had it not been a sensitive jewellery, the diadem.

For a time Voldemort was interested in jewelry, especially the kind that belonged to famous people. Had the Gunters remained prominent, he might have lived like a prince instead of being handed out like a child in an orphanage.

It is magic that makes him different. According to property inheritance rights, 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".

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

The Lancastrian lineage that lost the War of the Roses was wiped out, and only some people remained in the branch that fled to France. John of Gaunt, like Philip I of Habsburg in Spain, chose to be with Castile. Kingdom marriage, but Constance brought a lot of wealth such as gold, silver and jewelry, while Joanna wore most of Spain's land as a dowry.

In the "Code of Napoleon", if the mirror is not mounted on the wall and is "firm" like a permanent adhesive, then it is real estate, and it must be divided according to real estate when dividing the family.

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

Sometimes women will make some evil assumptions when they are together, for example, the husband uses their dowry to support his mistress, why can't they get a divorce in this situation?

Even Edgeworth will stay away from women at this time, and his friends have used women's dowry to do some high-risk businesses. Although they won in the end, many people who have similar experiences to them will lose in the end. A penny is still a trivial matter, and usually they still have a lot of debts. How do they live like this?

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 entering into legal proceedings, reconciliation, borrowing money, receiving the original movable property and delivering the certificate of receipt, and contracting for the transfer and investigation of his property. The act of assigning a mortgage.

People who waste in the Twelve Tables Act are like mental patients, who have no right to deal with their own property. The "wasteers" in the Civil Code include not only women, but also some men.

It was so easy to advance the sugar refinery in Ghent this time because of the help of the Archbishop of Ghent. Napoleon returned the 80,000 francs annuity that his nieces had confiscated. The Archbishop of Ghent is French, and his nieces are also French aristocrats. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, they went to Belgium to seek refuge with their uncle. Now they want to return home, but they missed the deadline stipulated by Napoleon.

In the past, this annuity was not enough for each 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 the skirt. It is already a custom for the duchess to hold the skirt for the king's favored mistress. The archbishop's nieces don't mind at all after they get the "promise".

The aristocrats would not shout "good luck" on the street like beggars. They dressed decently, appeared at the ball, bowed to Napoleon, and expressed their submission to get some "arrangements". Mechelen once had the highest council of the Habsburg family, and these nobles had a lot of connections in Belgium, such as an uncle who was an archbishop.

Some aristocratic families in the Middle Ages would send their second son or other sons to the monastery. This is not abandoning them. If that son becomes prominent in the church, it will also bring benefits to the secular family.

In the summer of 1781, Austrian Grand Joseph II visited Belgium. At that time, the people responded indifferently to his arrival. The policies he implemented in Belgium in the following years met with many open resistance.

No one knows what the strong wind from Italy is going to do now. Turning the deep-water port of Antwerp into a port that can only pass through punts is also because of "historical issues". The canal is too troublesome and not as easy as the road or railway on the ground. After all, it is real estate, and water does not return to the nest like bees, and the bees that return to the nest are also counted as real estate.

Now Antwerp has an almost fanatical affection for Napoleon, and instead of following the magicians who are touring with him, the Antwerpens themselves arrange daily celebrations.

But after the ball, Georgiana was scolded. How can I say that the traditional costumes of Belgian women are white. When Lana came to "pick him up", there were two or three hundred girls in white dresses wearing flower garlands, and The same number of cavalry, Georgiana's white dress sprinkled with diamond dust was thrown inconspicuously.

She really wanted to ridicule him, whether she wanted to be like the guard of honor who followed him, with a feather on his head, and the feather almost touched the ceiling.

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

Unexpectedly, Bertin had already prepared for it. When she made the "gift for the goddess" for Georgiana, she also made other long skirts.

Napoleon loved Egypt, there were Egyptian decorations everywhere he was, and there was a big bronze Egyptian-style vase in the Tuileries.

But the problem is that she's not going to a masquerade party, Halloween is already over, why is she dressed as Cleopatra?

Unexpectedly, her thoughts were easily satisfied. Mrs. Laner said, why can't there be a masquerade party? And the location is in the new botanical garden.

Looking at the mysterious smile on her face, Georgiana felt that it was not that simple.