Versailles is worse than being queen

◎Steal people from the mouth of Frederick the Great◎

Jeanne, 21, is just starting out as a courtesan.

The owner of this brothel, Jean-Baptiste Dubari, took a fancy to her beauty, and while making her his mistress, he also acted as a pimp without hesitation, combining her beauty with temptation. Sold to many people.

From a sewing shop girl to a courtesan, in just a few months, "Miss Lange" has become quite famous in the area around the center of Paris.

This is a high-end place, and the benefactors who can come to consume her beauty are either rich or noble, allowing her to see wealth that she has never seen before.

But it also got her into some dangerous clients.

For example, the Earl of Consingston, who is paranoid and cruel, knows exactly who she is, but wants to monopolize her——

"Ah!" The man screamed in pain and withdrew his hand, the wound on his hand was bleeding profusely from her bite, "You nasty toad!"

"Help!" Jeanna quickly got up from the ground, screaming loudly while running away.

As long as the boss or his subordinates can hear it, the boss will definitely not let her have an accident.After all, she is still his cash cow!

Jeanne tried to comfort herself as she ran.

A five or six-year-old beggar poked his head out from the side of the street and screamed out of fright: "Run, Jeanna!"

He didn't dare to go forward, so he could only help Rangna and call for help: "Killer! Help!"

However, this time is not the operating time of brothels and casinos, and there are no people on this street.

Jeanna heard the footsteps coming from behind getting closer, and looked back in fear.

Just turning around, she tripped suddenly and fell forward all of a sudden.

thump!

Her knee didn't hit the hard floor, and someone held her up.

Jeanna only had time to see the brightly colored and expensive clothes flashing in front of her, when she heard the voice of a girl who was still immature but calm and calm: "Hold him."

There was a bang, followed by Earl Consingston's curse, which immediately turned into an angry "whoosh".

"Jeanna!" The little beggar wept with joy, stumbling over from his hiding place.

"Thinking to kill someone in the street? It's really powerful." Jeanna heard the girl say coldly, "Send him to the police station."

The boss hasn't shown up yet, so that's settled?

Jean Na's mind was spinning quickly, and she quickly wiped her eyes and sobbed: "Miss, this scoundrel is going to kill me! Woooooo..."

The aristocratic girl who was grabbed by the corner of her skirt pulled it out vigorously, but did not pull it away.

Jeanna felt her thin body stiffen for several seconds, and then a small hand gently pushed her shoulder.

"...you are too noisy." The girl couldn't help but rubbed her forehead.

"Ah, I'm sorry!" Jeanne stopped crying immediately.

She took out a handkerchief embroidered with golden roses and wiped her tears, stood up cautiously, and was relieved to see the gagged Earl of Consingston being scolded and sent away.

The little beggar also rushed to her side at this time, and circled around her several times, crying in his voice: "That old bug! How dare he hit you! This job is too dangerous, Sister Jeanna, Don't do it..."

"It's okay, he won't dare to do it next time." Jeanna patted the little beggar's shoulder reassuringly, "If this job is dangerous, then there is no safe job—and it makes a lot of money, otherwise, where would I be?" There is money to buy bread for you and your friends."

After calming down the little beggar, Jeanna rolled her eyes and took the girl's arm affectionately: "Miss, without you, he would kill me. Thank you so much, please allow me to ask you Have a drink!"

She glanced at the young girl's delicate and fair face, and immediately changed her words: "—Hot chocolate is also fine!"

"Uh..." The girl hesitated for a few seconds with complicated expressions, and finally nodded slightly.

"Thank you."

……

"What should I call you?" Jeanne asked with great enthusiasm.

Antanya lowered her eyes subtly.

She knew that Madame du Barry was a prostitute before she climbed into the king's bed, but she didn't know that she was living like this before meeting the king.

Originally, she hadn't considered dealing with this woman who was proud of being a mistress in advance.After all, she knew that after she married to France, Louis XV would not have a good life for a few years.

But it never occurred to me that it was such a coincidence that this Miss Lange lived above the newspaper office that she intended to buy.

In her previous life, she and Mrs. Dubarry were famous friends, but she actually had no prejudice against this woman herself.

She just hates the very existence of the flamboyant "king's mistress" because the Austrian court hates such things.

And this initial hostility was immediately noticed by the sensitive court faction, and soon turned into a confrontation.

According to Versailles etiquette—although Antanya herself scoffed at all these rules herself—a woman of low status could not speak to a woman of high status first.

The queen of Louis XV had died long ago, and Antalya, who was the crown princess at that time, was the highest-ranking woman in the Palace of Versailles.

Therefore, Madame du Barry could not speak to her until she spoke first.

At that time, the young and proud young crown prince and concubine who couldn't bear the sand in her eyes couldn't understand the behavior of the royal mistress spending money like water with one hand covering the sky with the king's acquiescence, so she accepted this rule naturally. The rule that is good for you is not to talk to her.

But Mrs. Dubali rose from the common people to the position of the king's mistress, but what she cared most about was the approval of others.

She and her party immediately started from the king and began to put pressure on the crown princess naked, trying to force her to submit through pressure from the king of France and the queen of Austria.

We all know that compulsion always provokes rebellion.

What's more, Antania was only 15 years old at that time.

So, after letting them finally use national and political weight in exchange for the Queen of Austria to personally force her daughter to admit this thing that was completely inconsistent with her own values, Antania said a word to the woman: "The people in Versailles today are really serious. A lot."

I have only said that sentence to her in my life.

However, during her years as a ghost at Versailles, she also heard about the tragic end of the last French royal mistress - she was guillotined in the same year as herself.

Unlike Antanya who walked towards death with her head held high and her chest held high without saying a word, Jeanna cried and screamed for mercy on the way to the guillotine, and was still crying for the executioner at the last moment before she died: "Wait a minute, Mister Executioner, I beg you!"*

Speaking of which, she was initially buried in the Madeleine Cemetery just like herself after her death.

——It can be regarded as friendship with a roommate who once lived in a grave.

"I'm not from Paris and I won't be here for long."

Antanya said lightly, "However, are you sure you want to continue this business? These things may come to you sooner or later."

After she finished these few sentences, she realized that she seemed to have spoken too lightly.

Obviously, given the choice, no one would choose this path.

Antanya thought about it silently, "If you want, I may have a way to get you out of this kind of life. Learning a craft and gaining more knowledge is better than relying on men forever."

Although she didn't really like this woman, to be honest, after experiencing so many things in the past and present, the quarrel with her in the Palace of Versailles seemed really worthless now.

She can easily help Jeanna at this time, maybe this woman will no longer be the mistress of the king, so that she can marry into the French court with less trouble.

"Thank you, you are a good person." Jeanna laughed, "But I know where my talents and skills are... I am not ashamed to tell you about that."

The illegitimate daughter of a seamstress, she never knew who her father was.Her mother supported her by being a mistress, and she also learned how to deal with men from an early age.

She has set up a stall on the street, worked as a hairdresser, assistant to a salesperson, and worked as a patient escort.She endured a lot of hardships, and finally, because of her beautiful appearance, she was favored by Mr. Du Barry, and became a popular person in casinos and brothels.

Here, she can get in touch with those beautiful lives that she never dared to imagine before.

Antanya looked at her silently for a few seconds and sighed silently.

"Then... don't worry."

……

Towards the end of the summer, Emperor Franz returned to Vienna with his youngest daughter from vacation.

Not long after Leopold's wedding in the summer of 1765, when the calendar turned to 1766, the Habsburgs soon ushered in several more weddings.

The four princesses Johanna, Christina, Amelia and Josepha got married one after another.

Although Johanna was young, she was engaged to Ferdinando, the little king of Naples and Sicily, long ago, and both parties were waiting for them to grow up.

Today, Johanna is 16 years old, and the little king is 15 years old. The newlyweds have settled, and the royal families on both sides are very satisfied.

The 24-year-old Christina, also known as Mimi, is the queen's favorite four princesses.Although Prince Albert of Saxony did not have the right to inherit the throne, she still got the permission of her parents to marry her sweetheart because she liked it, and even got the Duchy of Taishen as a dowry.

The situation of the other two princesses is more complicated.

After the death of the Duke of Parma at the beginning of the year, the marriage with the new Duke of Parma, Ferdinando, was more urgently put on the queen's agenda.

The sixth princess, Amelia, was chosen first, but she already had a sweetheart, so she was naturally unwilling.

Originally, the queen was too lazy to care if she was willing or not, and was going to order her to marry him.

In this royal family, no one can violate the Queen's will.

But after a while, when even Amelia herself was about to succumb, Isabella, the wife of Grand Duke Joseph, suddenly went to the queen with a letter from her brother.

Isabella is the sister of the new Duke of Parma.

The Queen was shocked to discover that the Duke of Parma himself wanted to marry her ninth daughter Josepha.

—and she didn't even know when they knew each other!

According to Ferdinando, he attended several royal engagement banquets in Austria and gradually fell in love with Josepha.

... Well, Amelia is 20 years old, and Josepha and Ferdinando are both 15 years old, the prince is indeed more likely to play with Josepha.

In this way, Amelia does not have to be forced to marry someone she doesn't love, and Austria can still marry Palma, and everyone is happy.

Although the queen is actually very reluctant to let Amelia get her wish-this rebellious daughter publicly disobeyed her will, and she deliberately wanted this ignorant child to be punished.

But later, she went hunting with her husband, and when she came back, she agreed to Amelia's request to marry Prince Karl of Zweibrücken.

Just not the dowry of a principality like Mimi.

Although still obviously eccentric, Amelia had already prepared for the worst, and now she suddenly reversed, and she was so excited that she couldn't restrain herself, and she was radiant throughout the wedding.

Antanya also happily attended her sister's wedding, feeling that she had completed another important task.In this way, my sister, these young girls should not have any worries.

—except Caroline.

Hey, don't worry, the little girl hasn't grown up yet, and she still doesn't know what love is.

She sips her wine and flips through the latest atlas of Europe.

Because the European countries have been fighting for years, the territory changes very quickly, and the map printers also make a lot of money.

At this moment, the door opened with a "bang", and Amelia, who hadn't changed out of the exaggerated dress of the bride, picked up the skirt and rushed in.

Antanya was caught off guard and almost choked.

"Antania! My sweetheart! My little angel!" Amelia picked her up and spun her around a few times. She was so scared that she almost screamed, and she clung tightly to her sister's arm and didn't let go. .

"I didn't even know, it turned out that you went to find Isabella! Why are you so smart, my baby!"

Amelia happily pulled her up and down, "And you didn't tell me! It was Isabella who was embarrassed by my thanks, so she told me... Dad also told me, yes You taught him how to plead with his mother."

Amelia gave a loud "Bo" to her sister's face, leaving a charming lip mark.

The groom, Prince Karl, also followed into the room, and nodded to Antanya with a smile.

Antanya... had no choice but to stand still and giggle.

Amelia hugged her sister again: "In the future, you will become the Queen of France, and Zweibruecken and I will always be loyal to you!"

It's hard to say what the future will be like... Antanya thought.

She pushed a few things silently, and tried to be as invisible as possible, just so as not to draw too much attention to herself.She has learned from her own lessons that in many cases, there is a price to pay for being in the limelight.

At the same time, Lagrange, who was at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, received a letter signed by the King of Prussia.

"My dear Monsieur Lagrange," wrote the notorious Spartan prince, "I think that the best mathematician in Europe should be in the court of the best prince in Europe—and therefore, I You are invited to come to Berlin and join the Prussian Academy of Sciences."

Lagrange frowned and thought for a while, then picked up a pen and wrote back, "I am flattered by your enthusiasm, but I have only been warmly invited and received warmly by the couple of the Holy Roman Emperor, and I have only been working in Vienna for more than a year. It is really impolite to leave, I hope you understand."

He looked at the self he had written with satisfaction, covered the sand with ink, shook off the sand and folded the letter paper: "Please reply for me."

The news that the genius mathematician declined the invitation of the King of Prussia soon reached the ears of the royal family.

Hearing this, Antanya breathed a sigh of relief.

Lagrange, who was in Paris in his previous life, was invited by this letter to go to Prussia, where he served as the director of the Department of Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Sciences for more than 20 years. He did not return to Paris until 1787.

At that time, she often regretted not seeing him earlier and leaving him in advance.

The contented little princess lay down on the soft autumn lawn, looked at the stars in the sky and patted her heart sincerely.

——So exciting, she actually snatched someone from Frederick the Great.