Chapter 1347 Dessert War

The nobles of the old times often lived in some old neighborhoods and old single-family houses. It looks a bit bad from the outside. All the stairs are a bit dirty, but once the door of the house is opened, you will feel like you are inside. In the other world, everything in this small world is noble and elegant, as refined as new.

To a certain extent, the life of the French middle class and former aristocrats under Napoleon was the same as before, as it has not changed since the reign of Louis XIV. The only thing that has changed is the servants, some of which are already very old. Also serve the director, these old servants reminded Georgian of Kreacher, a house-elf who likes to talk.

  The "honeymoon period" Leon seems to like to play cross-dressing games, often taking Georgiana to various parties in these "upper society" circles.

  The phenomenon of food scarcity is invisible in the homes of these wealthy people. All kinds of delicacies are served in the form of buffets. She wanted to persuade her, but later she couldn’t help eating those delicious delicacies.

  Tuileries will hold a reception party to welcome the British envoys. Although Napoleon’s sisters are masters in organizing balls, Bonaparte believes that such **** are not suitable for formal diplomatic occasions.

  British habits and customs, Georgiana, of course, knows best, but the state banquet cannot be without a little French characteristic, so he used his work as an excuse to come out to play.

  Any money obtained by storm is always wasted quickly.

  On occasions when Bonaparte appeared, the ladies were dressed very conservatively. Now they are dressed like the "Greek goddess" during the governorship period. They are all covered in tulle, almost as if they were not wearing them.

At first, she was very "British" angry. Later, it didn’t matter if she thought about it. Plato advocated that everyone take off their clothes before getting married and "inspect the goods". This is a custom in ancient Greece. Troy Helen was caught by many men before getting married. Checking, Bonaparte, who wanted to see her reaction, was amused by her words.

  He is very serious when he pretends to be a national hero, and he pretends to be aristocratic when he wears the clothes of a "rich man". Noble men's clothing is still breeches with white stockings, and a very tight bow tie. It is a waste of effort to dress so carefully and walk in the filthy streets of Paris.

   Bonaparte accompanied Giorgioanna to buy food once, and wanted to experience the life of an "ordinary citizen", but when he arrived at the door of the vegetable market, he didn't want to go in.

The general who had stepped on the human blood mud and piles of dead bodies on the battlefield was disgusted by the scene in the vegetable market. The wooden boards between the stalls had not been changed for hundreds of years. They were soaked in dirty water and moldy. The air was filled with the stench of dead fish. The foul-smelling water flows to the ground, and it is hard to imagine such a dirty cesspool in the center of Paris.

   Bonaparte wanted to lay a pipe network in Paris. These nobles felt unnecessary. They had become accustomed to the Versailles-style life without sewers.

  Then the Corsican was angry.

He loves cleanliness very much and dreams of turning Paris into a metropolis with one million, two million, and three million people, and replace the old and poorly tasted decorations of Versailles with trophies scoured all over the world. Let the old look of Paris take on a new look.

Georgiana and his opinion are exactly the opposite. She hopes that Paris will have a slightly smaller population. According to the information given to her by the United Kingdom, when the Revolution broke out, many laborers took up guns and became soldiers. Besides, the total amount of land in the city was so much that it was very difficult to build houses It's hard to find land, and she doesn't want to see the emergence of future big city diseases.

Bonaparte, who wanted to complain about her, turned pale with anger, looking for a sense of identity. Then Georgiana reminded him that he said he hoped that there would be less power in Paris. He calmed down, and then took his "girlfriend" out to play.

  He doesn't pay much attention to food, the food on the plate is almost gobbled up, he has the style of the army.

  But when he tasted red wine, it was different.

The wine that the "emperor" drank is of course good wine. He likes to drink wine from the Lafite Manor in Xiangdanni and Fu Jiu Yuan the most. He shakes the crystal glass or gold cup in his hand and smells the wine. Good or bad taste is related to smell.

  At that time, she would think of Rambouillet, the lord who brought her from the kitchen to the castle. Outside the window were beautiful fields and canals. A young man with a charming face was looking at the scenery outside the window with deep eyes.

  He noticed that she was coming, and asked her to choose the medal style on the table, while he sniffed the wine in the cup.

  Maybe she was entertaining him by her smirk. Every time she was in a daze, he would laugh very loudly, and then woke her up from that intoxicating dream.

  Later, he tried the same trick on other occasions, and no girl took the bait at all. Then he changed to Georgiana and laughed.

  Many restaurants appeared in Paris after the Revolution. The owners who visited were all chefs of the nobles. After the Revolution, these feudal nobles were either executed or exiled overseas. The chefs had to find their own way out.

  Josephine does not know how to cook. She and high-class ladies will go to top restaurants to dine. As for whether Napoleon will be poisoned and assassinated, she doesn’t seem to care.

Hubert Lebau was Napoleon’s dessert chef. He was mainly responsible for the large-scale desserts at the upper-class banquets and prom. Similar to the ice sculptures at the Hogwarts Christmas ball, the desserts he made were luxurious and eye-catching, and he fought with the French army. The Venetian-style decorative desserts are a sensation, and they are not comparable to small cakes made by women.

  Small cakes are served to the guests in the salon, but if the cake is too big, no one will eat the artwork. She and Hubert had different opinions about this.

Another chef, Anthony Karem, who is good at styling desserts, is from Talleyrand. He is very good at making an English cake called Charlotte cake, but the British method is to add small pieces of sponge cake. Cream of white wine, and red jelly and candied fruit. The French method is to put a circle of sponge cake or soft pie around the buttered mold, put a sugar-boiled apple in the middle, add lemon and cinnamon, and then cover it with custard sauce.

  So Georgiana chose the Charlotte cake made by Karem French as the dessert for the state banquet.

  Hubert was absent from work the next day after learning.

   Bonaparte took the troubles she encountered as a joke, as if he didn't mind losing her dignity.

He certainly did not say that Marie Antoinette was an "Austrian woman" in his speech to the Luxembourg Parliament that day. This title was added to Antoinette by the French people. Now France wants to establish a friendly relationship with Austria to deal with Prussia. He What he said was not as radical as Godan said.

  The Bonaparte family had just left Corsica, and when they fled to France, they pretended to be a "rich man", and people regarded their family as a warrior of freedom. The National Convention was about to issue a special order to allocate funds to compensate the Bonaparte family for all property losses in Corsica, so the Bonaparte family tried every means to falsely declare the property, so they received a very substantial resettlement cost.

  He told Georgiaanna that Britain and France handed over the peace treaty because the United Kingdom took a fancy to the coins in the French pockets, and there would be no people really willing to eat food at the state banquet. Karem’s Charlotte-style cakes can be used on other occasions.

   Then she told him about the quarrel with officials of the Ministry of Magic when she was decorating the school auditorium. Fudge also likes to pretend to be generous and spend a lot of money to decorate the venue, even those Ministry of Magic people want to replace her.

  She told Albus about this, and Albus helped her out. Then she told him about the previous Slytherin and Hefpuff girls poisoning each other. She can buy and cook by herself, without having as many people in the kitchen, and without worrying about the poison in her cooking. The cooks needed for the banquet can be hired outside, not to mention that Napoleon didn't participate in any social activities in the first place. What is the use of raising Hubert? Let him go out and do it alone.

   Immediately after, she asked Sophie to write to her British fellow. Do you want France to celebrate Halloween in Britain? Later, Sophie felt that something was wrong, and asked Godan to intervene.

  As a result of the "peace talks", Hubert is still responsible for making big cakes and distributing them to poor children in the parish after the state banquet. The charity will be responsible for this matter.

  Although the banquet was funded by the national treasury, the name of the cake was Josephine’s.

On October 5, 1791, a group of women from the Central Vegetable Market gathered at the door of the vegetable market at 8 o’clock in the morning to ask for bread and food. The men did not dare to make trouble. They would be arrested by the mounted police. The women of Paris took on the main protest. responsibility.

The vanguard forces that captured the Bastille were also women. The National Guard was behind them. The women rushed to Versailles to ask for food at 5 pm. The king promised to send all the food from Versailles to Paris. The moment the food truck opened, The National Guard rushed into the palace and captured the king and queen.

  Folklore Marie Antoinette heard that civilians can’t afford bread. Why don’t you eat cakes is a fake, but if you waste food at this time, you are talking to others. Even if the newspaper does not publish it, the folks will spread it everywhere. Mrs. Dubali was once posted up portraits everywhere. There was a thorn and a v underneath the portrait. The entire city of Paris was awakened by these words.

So Giorgioanna will not condemn those Paris women who wear tulle and eat cakes. She is only worried about whether they can ride horses. She knows how to run off when the mob attacked them and fall into the hands of those people. It is still a death. Happy.

  Afterwards, perhaps tired of that kind of fun-seeking occasion, Bonaparte took her to the salon of Mrs. Recamille.

  After the deportation of Mrs. Starr who "would not get married without love", the wife of the big banker Mr. Recamier, Mrs. Recamier’s salon became the most fashionable salon in Paris.

  This house is next door to the slum. It originally belonged to the financial director of Louis XVI, the Swiss Jacques Necker. Mrs. Starr was the daughter of Jacques Necker.

  Jacques Necker has a good reputation among the people, and he is called the "savior of France". Who is saving France? Rich man or soldier? Mrs. Starr accused Napoleon of being brutal, and that he was still an atheist and did not believe in Catholicism at all. The "talents" around her became a crusader against Napoleon.

  Mrs. Recamille has a dignified manner, and there are no women wearing tulle in the salon. There are many cultural relics from Egypt in the house.

  Some people say that Mr. Recamir, who is sixteen years apart, is actually Mrs. Recamir’s biological father, so she is not very close to him.

  And the Honourable Bonaparte will be affectionate to every lady in social occasions, his eyes as if he is the lover of all of them.

  Mrs. Recamille’s reputation is very good, but does she have a secret communication with this bad thing?

  Georgiana wanted to tear up the books she had read before. Where is Napoleon's love for Josephine!

  "What do you think of the atmosphere here?" The rich man, Christen said.

  This is his pseudonym. He has written the novel of "Chrison and Eugenie" before, although he is not famous.

   "Very good." Georgiana said without a smile.

   "How would you like to arrange your place like this?"

   "Do you like this place?"

  "I like to work in a place like this." He stared into her eyes and said, "In Malmaison, I only feel calm when I am outside in the gazebo."

   "You can work in the Tuileries." She said nonchalantly.

  He is a little upset.

   "This lamp is really ugly." She looked at the dripping beast that kept dripping oil into the lamp and said.

  The lights in Paris are still illuminated by candles and oil lamps, which can easily catch fire. She now misses gas lamps.

  "What do you think of these foods?"

  Madame Lemuel seems to be a fashion figure in Paris in terms of gastronomic art.

   "These dishes are too fashionable." She said coldly, "The British are very conservative."

  He sneered, "Aren’t you very fashionable? Then learn to use a typewriter soon."

   "With it, I don't need to write handwriting." She said coldly, "No one can imitate my handwriting. I think this is a terrible thing."

  The 30-year-old antique was so angry that he drank the wine in his glass.

   "Well, I will move it somewhere else." She compromised because the typewriter's voice was really noisy.

   "Why don't you put Egyptian ornaments in the room?"

   "I don't put the things in the grave in my bedroom!" She repeated again.

   "Are you afraid of death?"

   "I just can't imagine the scene." She said sadly, "I don't want to wake up every day to tell whether I am in the world of the living or the world of the dead."

   "We are alive." He put his hand on her neck and said strongly, "Don't have this kind of doubt in the future."

  "Do you have anything to do with Mrs. Lemuel?" She endured the pain and asked with some pain.

   "Are you jealous?"

  She nodded.

  "Keep it like this." He let go, took a glass of wine from the waiter, and drank it gracefully.

  At the moment he was drinking, Georgiana patted him on the back and asked him to spit out the wine.

   "What are you doing!" he said angrily.

  She took the wine glass and smelled it, and found that the green liquid was a cocktail with anise and cardamom added, so she returned it to him.

   "Don't think you can't recognize you when you are dressed up." She said coldly, "Don't just drink things that are unknown."

  "Do you think all green is poisonous?" He asked with a funny smile.

   "What wine is this?"

   "Absinthe, it also has a nickname."

"what?"

   "Green little fairy." He deliberately hit her with his shoulder.

  She stared at him for a while and decided to ignore him and go elsewhere, but he followed.

  He took her to a room with a statuette, and then shared the glass of wine with her in the most tacky way.

  It is sweet, maybe honey is added to it.

   "It is said that this wine bag cures all diseases." He whispered.

   "I'm not sick."

   "You're jealous, I'm treating." He wiped the wine off her lips, his head pressed against her, with a smile on his mouth.

   "I'm still angry." She said coldly, "I don't feel happy at all."

"I am full?"

  She nodded.

  He took her out of the salon before no one was paying attention, and did not say hello to the hostess from start to finish, as if he had come for nothing.

  (End of this chapter)