Chapter 1938 Egret Feather (1)

  Rouen was once the second largest city in France in the Middle Ages. Its prosperity and splendor are not lost to Paris at all.

  Georgina was sitting in the carriage looking at the scenery outside the window, because it was approaching Halloween, the streets were full of "wizards", and there might be real wizards in it.

  At this time, I can no longer feel the kind of tragic and majestic when Joan of Arc was executed. There is only a sweet and greasy atmosphere, which is the taste of desserts and French pancakes.

  Under the colorful medieval wooden beam building is a variety of shops, where goods from all over the world gather.

  The wheel ran over the cobblestone trail with a slight tremor, which reminded her of Marie Antoinette, when David was sitting in the prison car transporting her and painted her final portrait.

One evening, the Duke of Lozan Armand Louis de Gunte wore a hat decorated with egret feathers to attend a social event. Marie Antoinette praised the feather on the Duke’s hat, and a lady immediately asked The Duke conveyed the Queen's approval, so the feather was placed on Marie Antoinette's table the next day.

  She was embarrassed, but worried about embarrassing the Duke, so Mary accepted the feather, but only wore it once, and then she never took it again. But this trivial matter turned into a rumor, and there was a rumor throughout Paris that Marie Antoinette had received a gift from her lover.

  So "white egret feathers" became a satirical term, and it appeared in poems dignifiedly, while the Duke of Lozan followed Lafayette to the United States.

  After the War of Independence, he returned to France and participated in the revolution. He is considered Marie Antoinette's mortal enemy, and did not join Lafayette's constitutional monarchy. Later he got involved in partisan struggle and finally died on the guillotine.

  Sometimes the maid gets into trouble. Giorgioanna looks at the girls sitting across from her, but she looks happily at the girls on the streets of Rouen.

  They are still young, and it is natural for them to feel novel about these, but they don’t receive gifts casually.

  Teaching people at this time will be annoying, although they will certainly not talk back to her like the students at Hogwarts.

  She was very upset and took out the "Times", which published the Malthusian Demographic Theory. She was in such a good mood that she didn't want to be ruined by the news. Then she flipped to the back and found the spit battle between the Liverpool Canal and the railway.

  Although the steam locomotive has not yet appeared, rumors have begun to appear, saying that riding a steam train will make men infertile, pregnant women will abort, cows go crazy, hens will not lay eggs, air pollution, and houses burned. Although there may be some side effects in addition to air pollution, civilians believe this kind of rumor. They organized and constantly attacked the railway survey team. In order to make the work go smoothly, they had to hire boxers to protect themselves. The Times published this Such an advertisement for recruiting boxers.

  Liverpool is regarded as a port city, which is much more open than French inland farmers. The factory owners of those textile factories think that France has a large population and a large market, and many rural people are actually living in a state of self-sufficiency. They don't buy things outside, they weave and wear them by themselves, or to put it another way, their lifestyle is still in the Middle Ages. There are about 300 people in a village. This is what she heard from the aunt who works in the Gebu factory.

  The women knitting sweaters in the countryside have no idea about money. They thought that the workers in the city only had 2 su a month in the countryside where Georgiana had stayed.

  This is the case for farmers. The money earned during a hard year is not as much as that of working in the city. The younger and ambitious have all gone to the city. Wives are not just to enter the factory to be female workers, but also to be servants, laundresses, and the "most promising" profession-nurses. At that time, noble women were keen on work and salons. Of course, they are also now. They will nurture newborn babies. The work was handed over to the nurse.

  The salary of a rural nurse is 12 francs a month, and Georgiana pays the maids according to this number. But all their food, clothing, shelter and transportation were covered by her. The last time the Americans sent furs over, she didn't let the girls choose them by themselves.

  After buying those jewels, I need to save some money, but the salary that should be given to them can't be deducted, so that they do not want to go to the camp like Jeanna.

  Speaking of money, she thought about it. Next year, a new currency will be issued, replacing Golden Louis with "Golden Napoleon".

  The Soho factory in Birmingham is the only manufacturer in the UK that can export steam engines. In 1779, the Perry brothers bought a steam engine from the Saône factory. It was installed on the Seine River and used for the water supply network in Paris. The Bolton that Wedgwood was looking for had his profile picture on the British Pound. Matthew Bolton and James Watt founded Soho in Birmingham. Watt was in charge of technology and Bolton was in charge of sales.

  Steam engines are as common in the UK as windmills are in the Netherlands. They can be used to grind flour, pump water from coal mines, and blast furnaces. Later, Matthew Bolton invented the steam stamping coin machine. Each stamping coin machine only needs one worker to take care of it.

  Orders were also made at the beginning of the French Revolution. When the buyer's party was about to be delivered, the party had collapsed. After a delay of a few years, they brought it at the Industrial Fair, and it was considered as an exhibit at the same time.

  Current steam engines cannot be used in large industries, but they provide power to large industries. The decree issued in 1755 stipulated that only the Soho Company was the manufacturing center for the manufacture and sale of steam engines. The steam engine assembly and improvement engineer William Murdoch that the French wanted to dig was prohibited from engaging in this industry, although he liked it, he It can only operate gas lighting companies that have nothing to do with steam engines.

  People like him were forbidden to leave the country, and later changed to a German who also did lighting engineering. In general, the gas lamp can still be installed in the new exhibition hall of the industrial exposition. The tent of the last industrial exposition has not been demolished, and the gas lighting is used inside. Parisians love to live overnight. Those paying audiences see scientific experiments as magic. Moreover, the tent is really reminiscent of a circus. This is how she came up with the idea of ​​building a "Crystal Palace".

  Ireland only grows one variety of potatoes before it will be devastated by late blight. If there are many varieties of potatoes, or other crops, then the famine will not be so serious.

  This is her initial thought. In fact, Wedgwood and Bolton lobbied the lawmakers about what she still needs to investigate. She has heard that William Pitt Jr. has many business friends. Are these two people counted?

  Rather than buying a steam engine, she hopes to have the ability to make a steam engine by herself. What can the French industrial products have?

  Soap, and silk. These are the few industries that have not been destroyed after the Great Revolution. The French will never appear to be poor outside.

  Georgina is relatively economical in buying clothes. She bought a truck because she had to go out to socialize. Basically, she can guarantee that she will not repeat the same pattern during her stay in a city, but it is not enough if she wears two or three sets a day.

  If you receive a gift from someone else, you have to pay it back. Anyway, she is going to Belgium. If she buys Rouen clothes and wears it there, it is considered to be an advertisement for them, provided that someone buys it.

  She has a group of beautiful girls here, although they are not as good as the supermodels of the 20th century, they are considered beautiful. After the comparison, she discovered that Sophie was really a beauty. No wonder Godan, who loves to write scripts, looked at her without blinking.

  Where can she go shopping to get money?

   "Has Farron come?" Georgiana asked suddenly.

  Fillier and Margaret, who are looking at the street scene, looked at her together.

   "Call him here." Georgiana said solemnly, then she flicked the newspaper and continued to read the "news".

  (End of this chapter)