Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

Chapter 255 022 The Journey to Petit Trianon

As for what Bolivar wants to do, considering the current means of communication, we can only tell him some methodology and let him unite his comrades, but nothing else can help.

Moreover, in the South American revolutionary war, the British still made great efforts. They made great efforts for the raw material base and the market for dumping goods. They also sent Kirkland to South America for support. This happened only 20 years later.

Now what he has to do is to accompany Paulina to Petit Trianon to escape the summer heat. The weather in Paris has been very hot these days, causing the ladies to wear relatively cool clothes. At this time, the large areas of skin on the bare arms and shoulders are beautiful.

Paulina also used whale bones in her skirt, so her chest looks particularly full. She is now quite unrestrained, holding the two children in her arms, one on the left and one on the right.

"Madam, I think you should pay attention to your image in front of the children, and it's still too hot in this carriage."

"Yes, I'm sweating. You can open the window."

After opening the carriage window, natural wind came in, but the perfume sprayed by the ladies also poured into Soloviev's seat.

This mixed smell can only be experienced by those who smell it. Although these two ladies love cleanliness, it is unlikely that you would say "sweating profusely".

Fortunately, they arrived in Versailles and saw the outer wall of the Palace of Versailles.

"It's unexpected that this place is so dilapidated!"

"I heard from my brother that after the Revolution, the king moved away quickly. Later, it began to be gradually abandoned."

That is, the architectural structure of the Palace of Versailles itself is relatively strong, and most of the main buildings do not need too much maintenance and can be generally kept intact.

But the interior decoration is not in a good condition.

Even now, when this carriage and a few followers came here, they saw someone moving things out.

"What are you doing?"

"Madam, these are the furniture and door panels from the auction. You know, these things can't be wasted."

Speaking of which, after no one lived in the Palace of Versailles, the situation was not optimistic, especially when it was used as a club and event venue, it lacked maintenance. After the sans-culottes moved in, they once used the greenhouse garden of the Palace of Versailles to grow potatoes and onions, that is, they planted 200 apple trees, which was more in tune with the garden of this palace.

"Burning the zither and cooking the crane, but there is nothing we can do. It is a waste to leave this palace empty."

"Michel, what do you mean by that?"

"In China, the zither and the crane are symbols of elegance. I am just saying that this behavior is like this. There must be people who stole jewelry, destroyed the hunting grounds, and cleared out all the animals in the hunting grounds."

"You are a Russian, but you seem to be more angry than the French, Michel."

"I am just expressing my feelings, Paulina."

"If you knew that there is a Mr. Delacroix who wants to raze this place to the ground, I don't know what to say?"

Paulina is not completely ignorant, but the Mr. Delacroix she is talking about is the father of the painter. His proposal is to completely destroy the Palace of Versailles, but it did not succeed in the end.

That gentleman served as a senior official in the Bouches-du-Rhône and Gironde provinces successively, and also handled a large amount of state property at a very low price during the auction of the Palace of Versailles, especially selling the treasures collected by the Palace of Versailles to George III to decorate Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. In addition, he also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his wife may have some relationship with Mr. Talleyrand.

According to Napoleon, I am afraid that the ministers, parliamentarians, senior officials and mayors who rose during the French Revolution were all taking money from the treasury. If you pick one person at random, he may have a net worth of hundreds of thousands of francs.

Even for an innocent person like Moreau, his official residence, castle, and other properties are worth 500,000 francs.

Napoleon himself, who has actually achieved the greatest achievement of the revolution and has become a lifelong ruler, also has a huge amount of property, especially from Italy.

The plunder of the First Consul cannot be called plunder, but requires contributions from local people. It is no wonder that some Italian nobles tried their best to get the Austrians back after contributing their property, which harmed their interests.

The current state of the Palace of Versailles is indeed a pity. If you want to talk about the treasures of the French Bourbon royal family, many of them are here, and they have also been sold to foreigners or directly stolen, and many of them are missing.

When Paulina rented the Petit Trianon, she was disappointed to see that it was in a state of disrepair.

"I thought that the palace left by Madame Pompadour and Queen Marie Antoinette would be well maintained since it was in use!"

"Paulina, at least the room you need is clean."

Soloviev said so, and Sylvia echoed: "Yes, madam, we don't need a reception room either, we want to use the garden and lawn here more.

At least the area around Petit Trianon is relatively clean. There are no onions or potato servers. It is all lawns and gardens. After all, it is the place used by the Jacobin Club branch in the palace. Now, it is also hosting various parties and local salons, so it is necessary to maintain basic decency.

As for the servants, they have to clean the beds and clean up Petit Trianon. They have to wait until night to move in.

Paulina asked the servants to open the blankets and parasols. She and Sylvia held their children there to enjoy the coolness. However, their babies were tired because of the journey, so they huddled in their mother's arms to take a nap.

"We are all sleepy, Michel, don't you come and rest together?"

"I'd better forget it. I want to take this opportunity to visit this palace that is no longer glorious."

The situation of the Palace of Versailles is indeed not optimistic now. It is more like a large warehouse. The main palace is used to store property confiscated from the exiles.

Moreover, the gate of the palace was still blocked. When Solovyov met the gatekeeper, he offered to pay for the key and tour the palace for an hour.

"Sir, this is a good deal."

"I think I'd rather forget it. I want to see the native apples and onions grown here."

But the potatoes they planted were really not very good. If they were used as a server for Ubisoft, they would probably be disliked.

"What you planted is still not good. The land should be deeper. And what the hell is the fertilizer? What are you using? It's really smelly. Fermented manure should not have such a strong smell."

Versailles lacked toilets during the Bourbon dynasty, and now it is even more smelly. Compared with Solovyov's manor and the village given to him by the Tsar, this is far worse.

After all, many of the Parisian sans-culottes were lumpen proletarians, not real urban workers and rural farmers. Whatever they did, they were mostly making trouble, such as sawing off a noblewoman's head. Everything in France sounded very brutal.

But he didn't want to go to Versailles and still instruct farmers on how to farm, making himself look like a physiocrats.

Although he was very interested in farming and had done it in the Tsar's court, it didn't mean that he would continue to do so after he came out.

Moreover, it was still a long time before Mendeleev completed the construction of the periodic table of elements. There were many useful trace elements that could not be explained clearly.

He would not show off this "secret weapon" outside of Russia, but only in his own village, and those high-quality tomatoes and cabbages occupied the tables of many nobles in St. Petersburg.

In addition, he also liked to grow lettuce, and the corners of each greenhouse and each field could be used.

"Sir, since you know how to farm, we still need to ask you for advice."

"I just said it, it's all about fertilization. This manure is too smelly, and onions are the stuff. It's more troublesome to change to something else."

Then he lost interest in sightseeing and went back to Petit Trianon.

On the lawn, Paulina and Silvia both fell asleep with their children in their arms. Considering that they are still very young, the picture of parents and children sleeping together is very cute.

Octavia lay in her mother's arms, both of her little hands on her mother's belly. She must have told her mother how much she loved this baby. It was also Silvia who had been raising her alone and did a good job in early childhood education, so that everyone who saw this child liked it very much.

He picked up his daughter and looked at the child's sleeping face. When he thought that he would leave Paris soon and be separated from his child for a long time, he felt a little sad.

"Michele, this child is sleeping so soundly. She can sleep so soundly even when you hold her."

"Are you awake?"

"Yes, I am awake."

Silvia's hair is disheveled and her eyes are blurry. She looks so lazy and charming.

"How do you feel now?"

"When I was pregnant with Octavia, I didn't feel anything except when the little one moved around in my stomach."

"Our daughter is really very well-behaved and cute."

"That's why the lady likes her and wants to keep her by her side. In fact, she wants me to take care of her 'Cupid'."

"Then you have a great responsibility. Although Demid is a cute child, he is very weak and you have to take good care of him."

"Don't worry, I will raise him well. And Pauletta is lately."

Paulina slept soundly with her son in her arms and was not disturbed by the two of them talking loudly.

"Huh?"

"You are so passionate when you make out with anyone."

"Not really, I feel that Pauletta is more proactive, but she took me down on her own initiative."

"Yes, it was my idea. Although Prince Borghese seems to love Pauletta very much now, he made out with her many times before you came. But he is too frivolous."

Then the pairing of these two can be said to be just right.

"You are really interesting."

"After all, Pauletta and I are better. She loves me very much and entrusted her children to me."

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's see how the cleaning is going."

The entire "King's Bedroom" in the Little Trianon is all pink, even the bed, which has a pink-based pattern.

"It's really beautiful here. Pauletta would have loved it here and she's always wanted to live in this palace."

"Sylvia, in a few months, I will leave you again, and I have to ask you to forgive me."

Solovyov hugged Sylvia here and let her hug him tightly.

"This is inevitable, and you are also a little pessimistic. We will definitely meet again. If you get to the battlefield, you will also"

"There is no other way. I am a soldier, and I cannot retire easily. The reason why you rejected me is because you are worried about my future, and you know my wish."

"Yeah, in the end I still feel sorry for myself."

"Then when I'm in Paris, I'll stay with you and watch Octavia grow up. And this child, if it's a boy, what are you going to name it?"

"Giuseppe, if it were France and Russia, it would be Joseph."

"If it were a girl, I would have wanted to name her Pauletta, but I have a sister with that name, and besides, Pauletta seems too rude, so I might as well choose another name."

"You also know that she is very reckless, so what name are you going to give her?"

Sylvia also winked at Solovyov, hoping that he would use his brain to complete the task.

"I think, Aurora, it should be good, Aurora."

"You really hope that our children will have a bright future."

"Of course, I just know very well that although France and Russia will not fight this year, the war is not far away. Fortunately, Paris and Petersburg are far away from the war, and it is clear where the main battlefields are. "

"I don't understand military affairs, Michele, don't treat me as your subordinate or staff."

"I want to be promoted to colonel. I will only have this qualification after becoming the regiment commander, right?"

After all, Solovyov could not avoid paying more attention to his career. Thinking about his current status, unless the Russian army came to Paris one day in the future, he would have no chance to grow up with Sylvia as he did now. time together.

"Michele, I also hope you can have a good future."

"I also hope you live a happy life here. You are really cruel to yourself."

"I like people like you. I don't like those frivolous people. Even when Camilo proposed to me several times, I rejected him. It is safer for me to be his housekeeper."

"But I'm also a little frivolous now. Look at me holding you so tightly."

"As you are now, you have only slept with three girls in total. Compared with that prince, you are far behind."

It seems that in Sylvia's eyes, this matter of her own is not a big deal.

"Since you like me as an 'honest person', then give me a kiss."

With Sylvia's current physical condition, she could only kiss and hug her.