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What's the matter? Fan Wuxi listened to Shen Ying's words and felt a little curious.

Shen Ying is different from other girls, her mind is relatively independent, and she rarely asks others, let alone directly asks Fan Wuxian for answers like today.

"I've been invited to a ball." Shen Ying said hesitantly.

Ball? Fan Wuxian asked very casually, "Male or female?" ”

"There are men and women, and there are foreigners, and the location is also in France." Shen Ying replied.

Hearing a few in France, Fan Wuxi immediately said with some unhappiness, "I don't like French, but I haven't heard that you have any acquaintances in France, right?" How could someone invite you there? ”

A few years ago, Shen Ying stayed in Germany for a while, learning to get some small mechanical things, Fan Wuxian knew that she had a very good relationship with the landlords over there, and often exchanged gifts, but she didn't expect that this time it was the French who invited her to the ball.

Shen Ying was a little embarrassed: she replied, "It's a coming-of-age ball held in Paris, and I'm invited to participate, and I haven't decided whether to participate or not." (Mobile AP Browsing Search/Search/999)"

As soon as Ying mentioned the coming-of-age ball, Fan Wuxian understood.

This one. East, actually known as the Celebrity Daughter's Rite Ball, is held annually in November at the Hôtel de la Clion in Paris, one of the oldest luxury hotels in Paris. The coming-of-age ball was originally held only within the British court, limited to girls from noble families who had reached the age of eighteen, and they would be introduced to Queen Victoria in a solemn ceremony and thus obtained the qualification to participate in the social ball, and such a ball was often a platform for friendship and blind date between nobles, so these girls were often nicknamed prospective brides, and unlike many modern people imagined, the British coming-of-age ball was not a gathering of princesses and often did not deliberately invite foreign girls to participate.

Such meetings were irregular, and later held more and more rarely, but many royal families on the European continent borrowed from the bar mitzvah, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the former Greek kingdom, etc., organized similar events.

In 1957, there was a coming-of-age ball in France, where the public relations manager of the perfume company Bardu, Andre Bo, took the lead in organizing such an event, and the famous dancer Jacques Cenzo recommended a number of young girls from famous families to participate every year, and the participants must wear evening dresses, white gloves and jewelry, and the event was held at the Garni Opera House or the Palace of Versailles. (For more new chapters, please go to, search/search/nine/nine/nine/)

However, the good times did not last long, and in 968, a left-wing wave broke out in France, and the coming-of-age ball was regarded as a symbol of the exploiting class, and was pointed out by thousands of people, and the girls invited to participate were unwilling to attend, and the event was stillborn.

In England, the court-style coming-of-age balls were abandoned by King Elizabeth II. In fact, there are now few existing royal families in Europe that have become a real princess ball, and a cold scene is inevitable. The queen didn't want to be bored, so she simply stopped it.

It wasn't until 1990 that French social gurus repackaged this traditional and grand ball, and the selection of beauties was no longer limited to the British royal family, but opened the door to famous girls from all over the world, but the selection rules became more and more stringent. It is said that the celebrities who can be invited to the ball must not only be from a famous family, intelligent, and have a high education, but also be beautiful and slim.

And now the coming-of-age ball is no longer a place for aristocratic families to marry.

The ball has evolved into a lavish and fashionable way of socializing, a sign of status for high society. The girls who went from being invited to the final ball were very enviable, and being able to attend the only ball for foreign ladies in Parisian high society meant a bright future and the possibility of catching a golden beetle.

So Fan Wuxian frowned and asked, "What's so good about participating in that thing?" It's just a group of ignorant girls getting together to show off their wealth, and by the way, they are just intoxicating each other, and it's easy to attract criticism. ”

Shen Ying immediately retorted a little unhappily when she heard this, "Where is it so superficial as you said, people have charity-themed activities, and everyone comes together with a public welfare color." ”

According to the official statement, the Paris Balls are not an occasion for aristocratic girls to show off their wealth or intoxicate each other, but as a business card of the fashion capital of Paris, a public welfare event to entertain the public. (Mobile AP browsing search/search/999)

In order to express this trait, and to break away from previous court coming-of-age balls, the ball's official name is the Paris New Rite of Passage, which is said to have originated at the suggestion of Faqiatifa, the last princess of the Egyptian kingdom of Farouk. In order not to offend the French public, which is rich in leftist traditions, the organizers have arranged a charity theme for each event, such as this year's Coming-of-Age Ball, which is co-organized with UNICEF International, and all proceeds from the ball will be donated to poor out-of-school children in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Vietnam.

"And donate to Cambodia,

Donate to China? This is obviously state discrimination, why do you have this? Fan Wuxian asked.

"Uh, I really didn't notice this question-" Shen Ying was stopped by Fan Wuxian's question, and was suddenly a little embarrassed.

It was also the first time that the French invited Chinese girls to a coming-of-age ball, probably because relations between China and France have been warming up recently, and because China and France have restarted large-scale economic and trade cooperation, both sides have enough interests to establish a more harmonious partnership, so the people are also making efforts to promote mutual exchanges. (All overdrive updates:\. SOSO999\.COM)

The organizer of the dance party also learned through the ambassador to China that the current hot news figures in Chinese mainland, the owner of the Confucian banquet wine is actually a girl less than twenty years old, and this girl has a very long family heritage, so Shen Ying's conditions are very in line with their requirements.

After learning that Shen Ying's income exceeded 600 million yuan last year, the prom organizers no longer had any noise about inviting Shen Ying to participate in this year's prom, and everyone agreed that such a girl could appear as the standard of the world's top celebrities.

Therefore, the French went through various relationships and invited Shen Ying to Paris to participate in this year's coming-of-age ball, which even exerted influence on Shen Ying through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Sino-French Friendship Association, and even they expressed their willingness to promote the Confucian banquet wine to France as a reward for Shen Ying. (For more new chapters, please go to, search/search/nine/nine/nine/)

In fact, as a girl who spent the New Year in Europe, Shen Ying has also heard of the Paris coming-of-age ball, in the official publicity, this ball is charitable, public welfare, although the main tone is still luxury and blood, but it has gradually moved closer to ordinary people.

"It seems that the dance partners they choose are all princes and dukes of European royal families." Shen Ying said.

"What does that mean?" Fan Wuxi pouted and said, "In a place like Europe, where there are few people in a small country, there are only a dozen cooks and grooms in a duke's family, and in China, even a village cadre can't compare, what's so rare?" Even the prince of Britain, in terms of population ratio, is not as noble as the son of a department-level cadre in China. Why would you surrender yourself to that kind of ball, it's not worth it! ”

By Fan. Shen Ying was also a little confused when she said this, could it be that this dance party was really so unbearable?

However, the Ministry of Communications was very supportive of her going to Paris, and was also very enthusiastic that she could provide escort services throughout the process, which meant that Shen Ying could win glory for the country, but it was difficult for her to associate this ball with those pyramid scheme scammers and the like.

"But how should I respond?" When Shen Ying encountered this situation, she was a little undecided.

"It's very simple, the problem I just raised, you mention it to them, if it can be solved, then I will accompany you on a trip, if you can't do it, then they are not sincere, my wife, can you please it by any person?"

After Shen Ying listened to Fan Wuxi's words, she also felt that there was some truth, if the organizer of the dance party couldn't attach importance to her own existence, and just hoped that she would attract them popularity in the past, what good would it do to herself?

Even if they agreed to help their Confucian banquet wine in the French market, but the difference between the consumption habits there and the domestic is very large, it is difficult to imagine how much Chinese flavor liquor they can drink in addition to red wine, coupled with the small population base, the consumer market is extremely limited.

If they can really revise the established strategy for their own sake, as Fan Wuxian said, then their faces will be bare again when they go to Paris, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will praise their influence.

Otherwise, it's really not interesting to go somewhere to play monkey tricks for others.

However, Shen Ying suddenly thought of another question, "You say, come with me?" ”

"Yes, how can I rest assured if you go alone?" Fan replied as a matter of course, "The French are all hairy, who knows if they will take the opportunity to eat your tofu?" If I had passed, there would have been nothing to do with them. ”

"But they didn't invite you?" Shen Ying asked rhetorically.

"Didn't you invite me?" Fan Wuxian laughed and said, "Tell you a secret!" What is the hotel where they held the ball? Hotel Cleon is right, it's been bought by my people! If you don't want to change places temporarily, it's best to follow my arrangement obediently! ”

"Your hand is so long—" Shen Ying replied after a long time, and she accepted the news in surprise.

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