The Happy Life of a Duchess

In terms of etiquette, engaged men and women cannot see each other for a period of time, and there are even some weird customs such as not being able to dance together in public——

More come from religious requirements and rules, but this is not necessarily the case. After all, although France is still one of the strongholds of Catholicism in the world, after several reforms and social changes, its dominant position in France has been affected. had a great impact.

Since the loss of political decision-making power and the separation of religion and politics, the absolute authority of Catholicism has been greatly affected.

After that, other emerging sects such as Christianity and Protestantism flourished in other countries, and further east, for example, the Principality of Russia practiced the Orthodox Church. Time for the Crusades.

At this time, the French people and the aristocratic class were already very confused in sexual relations.

Compared with the constraints of religion, people's behavior is obviously more wanton now, and these double derailments seem to be no longer minor violations compared to those rapes or worse things.

Unlike the British Queen Victoria, who was conservative in character and grew up under the strict discipline of her biological mother to limit her interactions, the French people had a chaotic private life from the beginning of the ruler.

Not to mention the corruption in Bourbon, and it didn't look much better when I arrived in Orleans.

It was only after Adele learned that she was engaged that she learned from Mary that not all unmarried couples would strictly follow the set of etiquette that Mrs. Lude said.

The half year and one year from engagement to marriage is often similar to the preparation period or the "imprisonment period". During this period, the character of the two parties will be considered again, and it appears that life is becoming more and more restricted.

In theory, it is not allowed to have sex and other similar things and actions before marriage.

But in fact, Mary told Adele that there are many men and women who have been together before they got engaged, and they even had to step up their engagement because they had children, and then completed the wedding two or three months later.

Of course, during the so-called time between engagement and marriage, it is not uncommon for people to hang out together without telling the truth. Anyway, if there is a child in the belly, the wedding time will inevitably be brought forward.

Adele has always had a natural attitude, but Mr. Duval seems to be more polite than she imagined.

He didn't mean to touch her before remarrying, at least according to the etiquette and habits, and he didn't want to "have an affair". Adele estimated it herself. Anyway, getting married is a matter of time...

"Is there really no problem?"

She put down the pearl oyster that had eaten the empty shell, and looked up at him.

Mr. Duval paused, and after a while he smiled:

"Then perhaps you would like to speak to Monsieur the Duke, and then two days in advance...?"

"..." Adele hooked the corners of her lips, shook her head, and said very calmly but cunningly, "Oh, you know, this is not acceptable... If you still want to marry your lovely little wife back."

Mr. Duval pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement:

"That's true. If it's true, maybe I will be secretly hated by Mr. Duke many times."

The dance party originally scheduled to be held at Mr. Duval's house was at the end of this month, that is, about ten days later.

But because of this unlucky turn of events, Duval had a temporary discussion with Mr. Duke, and then advanced the time on the invitation by about five days.

That is to say, after five days, all the guests will be informed of this matter in the form of holding a dance party.

The dance should reserve a certain amount of time for both the guests and the host family.

Now is not the social season, everyone's itinerary and activities will not be so full, but we should be more humane and spare time.

Especially on Adele's side, there are cousins ​​from their hometown who are waiting to come over, and next month, Clara from Frankfurt will come over.

In addition, Mr. Duval also has some close relatives who stayed in City C, and they are also coming to Paris.

The two sides calculated that there might be more than one proclaimed dance.

Because of this change, Mr. Duke, who originally wanted to procrastinate and keep his precious daughter, had to hold his nose and admit it, and moved up the prom time.

After that, we need to hold one or two more games to let the relatives and friends who came to Paris to enjoy themselves. After the wedding, we can invite relatives and friends from both sides to play together at the same time. Two circles on both sides.

Fortunately, in the past few days, the letters that should be sent to inform relatives and friends should have been sent.

First of all, explain this matter to them. As long as more people know about it, such false rumors will naturally not spread.

For example, Clara and the others will leave Frankfurt next month, so they will definitely not be able to catch up with the dance in the second half of this month.

But after all the calculations, I should be able to meet my cousins ​​when they haven't returned to their hometown, and they can meet together at that time, which can be regarded as seeing people from the same family. After the engagement, there is good news at home, and they are all relatives. Naturally happy to see good things happen.

Mr. Duval is indeed preparing for an engagement and a wife.

It's a pity that this candidate is not the inexplicable Miss Barry, but another celebrity in the circle, the acclaimed Duchess Adele.

The matter was quickly discussed.

What followed was even worse rumors about Miss Barry.

Adele has kept a fairly low profile these past few days. Except for receiving a few guests who have come one after another since the salon, the rest of her time is basically preparing for the prom dress up and dealing with other people who want to make friends with her. on those who participated in the salon.

For ladies and wives who are somewhat famous in the circle, they always hope to lead some fashions.

The most typical thing is that everyone hopes that the dance or salon held by their home is the most popular event, which can attract all kinds of high-status and high-born ladies and wives to participate, and can enjoy a very good reputation and prestige.

Now that Adele has also started to do such things, and news of her upcoming engagement has just come out, everyone basically wants to test her a little bit, and they all want to participate in her ship, which seems to be able to sail in the wind Good boat.

Adele has already spent a lot of time dealing with those people who have different thoughts and want to ask her about her marriage.

"So, how far has this matter progressed?" Adele made a list for herself.

Marriage matters are important, but they are basically on the right track, and she doesn't necessarily have to do everything carefully by herself.

On the contrary, it is the other things she wants to do, whether it is a workshop, a brand, or other industries or even this salon.

"Those who are not suitable to stay have already been driven away." Mrs. Lude reported to her the follow-up treatment of the Big and Little John's family and the situation of the entire farm since the last notification.

"And the workshop has been temporarily abandoned. They understood your needs, found reliable craftsmen, etc., and negotiated the amount. This is the rectification plan."

Adele wants to change the old hand-spun cotton cloth workshop with even abandoned rooms into a more labor-saving and higher-end cloth workshop with new machines.

"As for the employees, you have arranged for the people who will go to the cloth shop to stay in the future. They are still engaged in related work, such as sorting out the old cloth materials or leftovers, and they have the ability to distinguish. Appears to be an attempt to grow a new type of cotton seedling on a small scale."

"Seeds and cotton seedlings..." Adele pointed her fingers at the table, with a thoughtful look on her face, "I'll let Mrs. Daumier take some time to go there, she seems to have relevant experience, and then let them go to the tenants Look around, there are a lot of people who grow the land over there, and there are not no cotton growers. There should be someone who understands these things better. Whether it is giving money for guidance or using other methods, in short, the new batch of elite cotton seeds are coming in. I can think of a way to grow seedlings and plant them in the fields."

"Oh, by the way, didn't you visit the agricultural exhibition before, and met some gentlemen at that time..." Adele thought for a while, and ordered Mary to get a business card box.

"At that time, I seemed to have taken a few related business cards. Later, you can ask the housekeeper to contact them to see if you can contact them to purchase new species and improve the entire field... Anyway, except for the cotton planting part, there is still a large part of the open space. Before It has always been in an abandoned state, and I see that there are also suggestions on the use of new land written on this plan..."

"They're really cute..." Adele chuckled lightly.

"It's not that I really can't figure it out. If I really want to do it, I can touch my veins."

"This plan is a bit hard for farmers, and I'm not such a strict person."

"I'll take a closer look later, and adjust the tasks and goals, and I'm going to lighten it up a bit, but after driving away some people, I'm afraid it's not the police... At that time, I will prepare, hire or directly buy slaves... Forget it Let’s hire him.”

Adele quickly went through one thing after another, and gave orders to Mrs. Lude.

It was a long time since Mary came in with a newly made jewelry box that she felt a little thirsty.

"What's this?" she asked looking up.

"Mr. Duke ordered another batch of jewelry for you. This is a batch that was ordered earlier, and it is just ready for you to use now. Isn't there a lot of dances recently?" Mary stepped forward with a smile, opened the box, and uncovered the top Velvet dark brown cloth, show her.

"Before the autumn social season, there should be new ones," Adele went through in her mind, "Oh yes, and Mr. Duval, he also ordered me...I just knew..."

"Did you really know, miss?" Mary joked with her with a smile.

"Otherwise when would it be?" Adele was not angry, she asked back with a smile.

Mary wasn't nervous at all, since Mrs. Luder wasn't here anyway, she was busy with the things Adele had just arranged.

"If you ask me, Mr. Duval wants to marry you... He must have prepared it long ago. He must have been tempted. Our lady is so beautiful and pure. Such a good lady has already dumped that annoying Miss Barry. How far!"

"That gentleman treats you so well...I want to marry an excellent wife, but I just gave you some jewelry...that's how it should be."

She said very happily, really happy for Adele.