Unlike the carnival parties in the United States, the parties in France are usually themed and mostly in the form of salons. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In those years, French dramatists, novelists, poets, musicians, painters, critics, philosophers and politicians held gatherings.

They are like-minded, drinking champagne wine, listening to elegant music, and talking to each other freely.

Later, people called this form of gathering "salon", and the place of origin was France, so salons were still popular in France.

The average wealthy and middle class are keen to host it, as are the average blue-collar worker.

If you see a lot of mechanics in the French workers' quarters holding philosophical salons in a serious manner, it is not surprising, this is a normal thing......

Pushing open the door and entering the banquet hall, the scene layout is similar to the famous girl's ball that Han Xuan has seen on TV.

When he saw Dürer's watercolor "Young Hare" on the wall, he was sure that this was the banquet hall.

Men in formal attire, as well as ladies in evening gowns, chatted and laughed with each other over wine glasses.

Today is Chirac's own party, so the alcohol and food used are not too high-end.

But the incoming French president, who had been mayor of London for three terms, had a very high salary, and was considered a member of the middle class, and those things were not too bad.

Han Xuan was not familiar with them to the point of drinking, and the jet lag made him a little uncomfortable.

So he took a glass of grape juice of a similar color to the wine, and looked through the crowd for the man with a blue handkerchief in his breast pocket.

In addition to the three he had seen in the morning, he had seen some familiar figures among them.

For example, Ms. Abigail Johnson, who wears a blue handkerchief on her wrist, is Chinese New Year's Eve and 4 years old.

Her grandfather was one of the founders of Fidelity International Investments, the company where executive Anthony once worked, and the investment firm managed tens of millions of dollars in assets.

Abigail Johnson is herself one of the most well-known securities analysts in the United States today, and Han Xuan met her once at a party hosted by the old man.

Then there's the Colombian financial tycoon Luis Carlos Sarmiento, who owns more than a dozen percent of Colombia's banks, and even the local president must be in awe when he sees him.

Among them was a white old man, although he was wearing a top-of-the-line suit, but he looked a little out of place in the crowd.

His name is James Simmons, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught mathematics at MIT and Harvard.

After receiving an honor from the American Mathematical Society in 1976, Simmons turned to the hedge fund industry, using mathematical models to decide trades.

In just over a decade, his medallion fund has attracted billions of dollars in investment, surpassing Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Soros's Quantum Fund with a terrifying annual return.

In addition, there are a large number of tycoons in the resource, bank, fund and other industries that Han Xuan has seen in the newspaper, and the number of people can be counted by more than 20.

Calculated that the assets they have in their hands can probably reach 500 billion US dollars, a figure that makes Han Xuan feel shocked.

Even if most of the money is not their own, the amount of money that can be used is really staggering.

Not far away, an old man was talking to President Chirac, who was dressed very strangely, but Chirac respected him very much.

Because this is a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Emperor of the French Empire, named Napoleon VI.

As one of the few top aristocratic families in France today, the Bonaparte family has a transcendent status.

And the child next to Napoleon VI, who is not as old as Han Xuan, is probably the future Napoleon VII......

Han Xuan's sudden appearance in the crowd caused quite a stir, and many people smiled and raised their wine glasses to signal to him to welcome his arrival.

When President Chirac saw this, he came up with a smile and said, "Look, what a handsome guest!

Han, it's my pleasure to be here, when did you come to France?"

"This afternoon, I heard that you were having a party, and I didn't have anything to do tonight, so I came uninvited, and I hope you don't mind. ”

Han Xuan said politely.

Chirac is now in his sixties and looks very kind, and he wishes it would be as lively as possible tonight.

I was puzzled by the fact that the number of uninvited people was a bit large, and at the same time, I was a little proud, thinking that I had influence and they wanted to make friends with themselves.

Holding Han Xuan's hand and not letting go, he continued to say in French: "Not at all, I'm so happy that you can come."

And wearing a blue handkerchief, is this the color of the year?"

Han Xuan was about to speak, when Ms. Abigail Johnson came to relieve the siege, touched the glass with the old man Chirac, raised her head and took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "That's right."

The new model released by Burberry, a brand of his grandmother's whoops group, is no longer popular to put white handkerchiefs, and I think blue is beautiful. ”

Chirac didn't know this lady very well, but he had just met her with many wealthy French tycoons, and he thought she was very powerful.

After drinking the champagne in the glass, Lehe said: "I can't keep up with the times, and I will put a blue handkerchief at the next party."

Sorry, may I ask you ......"

Indeed, as Soros said.

Today is just a simple party, whether Han Xuan goes to find someone else, or someone else comes to Han Xuan, just say a few words, and leave after exchanging business cards.

But not without gains, at least he knows many people today.

Sometimes these networks are wealth, but now they all belong to the same underground organization, and they are relatively closer......

"Han, why do I hear so many people introduce themselves with the word De in their names?" asked Isabelle.

There weren't many things that she couldn't understand, and Han Xuan replied to her with a smile: "Prince Condé's family, de Bourbon."

House of the Dukes of Anjou, de Savoy.

The family of the Dukes of Nemours, de Fois.

Ninety percent of the nobility in France has this word in their names.

But not absolutely, some commoners will also add virtue to their names in order to show that their family has a long history.

The current French Fifth Republic is a republican form of government, and the aristocracy is basically abolished, and at present, these nobles refer to the descendants of the nobles canonized during the French monarchy and empire, and the number is not large, probably only more than 3,000 households.

Look at that little guy, he was a nobleman, and he was a very famous nobleman, and his ancestor was named Napoleon. ”

The future little Napoleon VII happened to see Han Xuan pointing at himself and grimaced unhappily.

"That......

Hello, excuse me, Han.

Can I talk to you about it?

I just started a company last year and I'm hoping to get investment from you. ”

Hearing someone speak, Han Xuan turned his head to look at him, and couldn't help but be happy after seeing his face clearly.

Good guys, isn't this John Paulson, who will fight to fame in the credit crisis in the future?

Without hesitation, he replied, "Okay, how much ...... to invest" (to be continued.) )