"You are no different," said Madame de Milady, at hearing the King's words, "you may not know, Your Highness, that your father was in fact a man of great sensitivity to fashion and fashion, such as jasmine pollen, rose rouge, perfume, and your familiar screw-curls, and so on, and that the author was not the legendary Madame Marie Mancini, but your father. ”

Crown Prince Louis Jr. immediately looked at his father with a look of surprise.

"I was in need of money at that time. "Tens of thousands of displaced people have been brought back from exile, the Louvre, which had been looted during the riots, needs to be repaired and cleaned, and the salaries of Schaumberg and Viscount Tyrrenne need to be paid as soon as possible...... And the money to buy servants and officials—yes, Louis was so embarrassed at the time, but as it was recognized hundreds of years later, women and children had the best money, and because men and women in this era liked to dress up like to dress up, Louis could double his profits in this regard.

"But things were different then than they are now," Louis said, "and then I cater to them, and now they cater to me." ”

"Yes, not just Paris or Versailles," said Madame de Miledi, "Your Highness, it is a natural thing for people to chase beauty, and it can even prevail over law and morality, or other human beings, and beauty has only one enemy, and that is strength, and before strength and beauty, people will only choose the former—sometimes, strength and beauty can also be combined, or 'mighty' changes the definition of 'beauty,'" she lazily fiddled with the hem of her skirt, her fan, and the jewels around her neck," she said. You've been to a lot of places, not just France, but also Slovenia, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy, so have you noticed that the more prosperous the city, the more familiar its people will become? ”

"Because they're following the new fashion in Paris or Versailles. "When you become powerful, people will follow you uncontrollably, their eyes will follow you, every word you say will be listened to, every command you give is like an oracle given by an angel, they imitate your attire, they connect with your accent, your eyes don't see anything that makes you unhappy, your ears don't hear the sounds that annoy you......"

"Is that how you feel?"

"Everyone with the right can feel that way. Louis said, "I, Leopold I, Cosimo III, and Mohammed IV of Istanbul." ”

"And then?" said Louis the Dauphin, "Father, I am afraid, and I remember a word, and God whispers softly, and the earth thunders. ”

"It is so," said Louis, "that you will inherit my place, son, and you will sit on a throne of greater splendor than ever before, but I have often been troubled, for you have never felt cold, nor hunger, nor the threat of death—your heart may be gentle and merciful, but you do not know what the consequences of your words will be, and you will be a most terrible tyrant." ”

"I understand, Your Majesty," said the Dauphin Louis the Younger, "so you have brought me into battle, and you have brought me here." ”

"Florence is a living specimen. Louis said, "You must always remember that in your lifetime, or your next chance will be Paris, Versailles." ”

"I have a question," asked the Dauphin Louis Jr., "Father, doesn't Cosimo III know what he is doing and what the consequences of his will will be?"

This brings us to the question of faith that I talked about earlier. Madame Miladydi said, pointing in a direction: "Go there, my Majesty, and Your Highness, there is a small monastery, and the monk in it is a cup-grubbing man, and there we may rest." ”

When Madame Milady said this, an attendant knocked on the door of the monastery with wine, and a monk took the wine in silence and let them in—the monastery was lifeless, with the pond covered with green algae, and the statues of the saints were full of breaches and cracks—not vandalism, but simply by the wind and rain, and the tiny branches of leaves and branches protruding from the cracks and reaching out to the face of the saint, as if to bring some solace to the anguished face.

The monastery belonged to a Florentine family with an unfamiliar name - After Cosimo I finally became the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence was transformed from a free city into the private property of the Medici family after several generations, and one after another the families who had had a say in the city either fled or died, and the convent where they buried their families slowly fell into disuse, and in this monastery they saw only a monk, and he opened the door for them and disappeared, perhaps to settle the good bottle of wine.

They sat down in the hall, where there were still many benches, and the Dauphin Louis found a broken printed Bible, perhaps because it was broken and printed, and was worthless, so it was thrown here, all of which were marked by rats, and between the pillars of the walls, the niches where statues or relics were supposed to be statues or relics were empty, and there were no glass paintings, and the lampstands on the zenith were gone, making one wonder if the monks here had sold them all.

"Cosimo III, in his youth, was not a pious man. Madame Milady went on to say, "He loved to drink, to dance, to hunt, and mingle with women as any young Italian, but after he became ruler of the place he was briefly responsible for a period of time, and perhaps he did want to do something, but the heavy work soon brought him down, and he took power from his mother with such speed, and gave it back with so speed— As you know, his mother and the minister chose for him a marriage, the daughter of the Duke of Gaston, "and here she wisely did not mention Gaston's former title, the Duke of Orleans, nor did she refer to the woman as the granddaughter of Henry IV, as the others did, for she knew very well that Louis did not like the ambitious Gaston very much, and that there might be a layer of father-killing feud between them, and that the Duke of Gasstone's dying curse was well known, "He did not love this woman," said Madame de Milady: "But the lord doesn't like him, either. ”

"That's a very polite way," said Louis mercilessly, for he had no affection for the uncle, given that Gaston had murdered him and Louis XIII several times in a row: "In fact this lady had always thought that she could be given the title of princess, and that she had hoped for a crown of queens, not the wife of an archduke, and that her father had spent a lot of favor in seeking such marriages for her, but she had always considered it an insult to her." These were also said when she returned to France, lived a monastic life in the convent, and complained about Louis XIV's meanness to her.

"Cosimo III gave her many valuable gifts when he was married," said Madame Miledi, "I think he may have had some illusions at first, but he soon found himself married to an ignorant shrew, and had to keep his marriage and have children." ”

"Here I would like to thank the daughter of Gaston for her stupidity," Louis turned his cane, "otherwise Cosimo III would not have decided so quickly about the marriage of your brother, the Duke of Colonna, and his eldest daughter." ”

The marriage of the Duke of Colonna to the daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany maintains a wonderful balance, I mean, on the surface, the Duke of Colonna is an empty lord with no title and no territory, but the Lord of Anna is the daughter of a Grand Duke with a large territory, and the husband of the Lord of Anna is most likely to be married to a Count or Duke of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Duke of Colonna can get such a wife, and people will say that he is a lucky man.

But on the other hand, everyone knows it, but it is always impossible to declare that the Duke of Colonna is the illegitimate son of King Louis XIV of France, and he is the firstborn son of this king, although Louis XIV cannot legally recognize him, but from the behavior of Louis XIV, he values this firstborn very much, not only tries to find an orthodox origin for him, but also gives him a territory (Gayola), and even intends to raise Naples for him.

Although the princess of Anna was born out of wedlock, her father, Cosimo III, was not a man of strategy or courage, and he did not even dare to expel and imprison his wife, who had already lost power, but only dared to ask Louis XIV for help, and made the banishment of Marguerite Louise de Orleans an important clause in the marriage negotiations, and begged Louis XIV not to complain to him as a cousin of the lord of Orleans.

Marriage in this era is such an MMP.

Having lost his yearning for love and marriage, Cosimo III, like most people, turned to religion for comfort, and his mother was also a devout believer, and the influence he had received as a child reappeared when he suffered setbacks, and he began to become fanatical, but as Madame Milady said, an ordinary man fell into madness because of his faith, and only he and those around him were harmed, and perhaps even fewer small families or two, but a king, a ruler, did this, it was a catastrophe.

"You think the streets are empty. Madame Milady said: "If you come quietly, and do not tell anyone who you are, you will find that Florence is still very lively—seven days ago it was full of beggars, wanderers, and monks, but they were all driven away to receive you." By the way, the six execution tables weren't that clean. ”

"Six? We only looked at five. ”

"There is also an execution table in the Place de la République. "But there may be some prisoners there," said Mrs. Milady. She glanced at Louis the Crown Prince.

"We have not been out of battle for long," said Louis, "who has seen the stabbing of two hundred." ”

"This lesson is a bit brutal. Madame Milady said, "But in that case, we can go there and see." ”

The execution table was probably the largest, and there were many standing cages around it, none of which were empty, and to the surprise of the French, there were women in it, because they were richly dressed and spoke French, and the guards on the side did not dare to come forward, but made a threatening gesture when they wanted to approach, and Madame Milady's attendant skilfully stepped forward and pulled out a money bag, and the guard looked at them in confusion, and after a moment he shook his head, impressed by the weight of the money bag, and he gestured and spoke in French that probably no one could understand- and then changed to another language, still no one understands it, but they probably understand, they can look at it, but they are not allowed to release or attack the people in the cage.

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