I Am Louis XIV

   Chapter 460 The Road to Adonis (Part 1)

   (a traveler's note)

   It is Sunday, March 21, 2021, my readers, I am in Paris, ready to retrace the famous “Adonis” path.

Ladies and gentlemen, although I come from an ancient country with thousands of years of history, for the Europa people, whether it is love, romance, or heavy but prosperous history, except for France, or in other words, except for the rule of the Sun King. There is nowhere other than France to be sought again and again.

When I was in Paris and Versailles, I had already visited the Saint-Denis Cathedral, the final home of the members of the French royal family. The Convent of St. Jakarta where she practiced is also the seat of the first women’s university in France. The Duchess of Montpensier and the Duchess of Orleans are also the host and sponsors of this school. It is said that they have also been teachers and students here. The statues - along with Madame Aubigne, Madame Lafayette, the former Queen Christina of Sweden and other famous women of the time - stand in the very center of a huge pool in the form of the Nine Muses.

It is said that there should have been a statue of the sun **** in the middle, but due to well-known reasons (please allow me to laugh), the sun king at that time, Louis XIV, did not arrange such a scene for the sake of the reputation of the ladies. However, Unofficial History And according to the legend, there have always been people who spoke eloquently, among these nine muses, at least three ladies did have a beautiful love story with the king.

The first to bear the brunt is the founder of the university, Madame Aubigne, who has always been said to be the king's secret "Lady of the Royal Family", that is to say, the king's lover who has not been recognized by law and public. Some people insist that the king treats her to her. Loved so much and even insisted on having an unknown wedding with her at the end of her life, but I don't think...that should be possible.

Louis XIV, who was nearly sixty years old after creating a huge and splendid kingdom, built the Trianon Palace on the side of Versailles after a grand triumph. Marble and ceramics are used in large quantities, I don't mean in furnishings and utensils. As we all know, the Sun King is a person who attaches great importance to personal hygiene. Versailles is the first palace in Europa with a complete and meticulous water and sewage system. There are independent sanitary facilities, and public spaces such as Venus Hall also have attached toilets - but the toilets at Versailles still follow the style of the time, with wooden walls and floors, and brass appliances. Riannon mostly used ceramics.

Before Louis XIV, although the French ceramics industry was also famous, it could not compare with the ceramics of the East. But at the request of the Sun King, his scholars excavated for him in Limousin, mainly in Limoges, the soil that was once exclusive to oriental ceramics, so those who worked for the king in the construction of Versailles It is logical for the Maori people to transform their wood and metal workshops into ceramic workshops or workshops.

  Since then, the French ceramics industry has soared like wings, even surpassing the original glass industry, and ceramics has also changed from a luxury decoration to an expensive daily necessities... For the people at that time.

The bathroom of the Trianon Palace, after five hundred years, is still miraculously usable. Of course, it is impossible for ordinary tourists to use it - but every once in a while, a librarian seems to open the fountain. The faucets of the washbasin, toilet and bathtub are turned on one by one like the water valve, and displayed to the tourists. The toilet equipment at that time was almost the same as that of us now, but it was much more delicate and gorgeous.

In addition to the bathroom, the Trianon Palace also has a variety of decorations such as ceramic bottles, parquets, sculptures, etc., which are produced in France and come from the far east. The most eye-catching is the Ming Dynasty. After the Empire established diplomatic relations with France, Ming's mission brought gifts—two huge dragon bottles, which could almost hold a grown man.

Ah, forgive me for going a little further here—I meant to say, as they say, the Louvre is the black iron branch of the French palaces, Fontainebleau is the leaf of silver, Versailles is gold and diamonds flowers, then this Trianon Palace is the fruit of ivory, and when you walk among the dark floors, wainscoting and soft china, all you can feel is a kind of unreasonable of peace and tranquility.

This is what the Sun King may need at that time, and in this palace, apart from him, there is no room for the royal wife or an ambiguous person, only the queen mother, the queen and the king's younger brother, the Duke of Orleans' suite. , in which Queen Teresa's room is separated from the king's room by only one door. They spent the last three decades of their lives here, and Queen Teresa was only six months away from the King's death.

The Sun King may have no love for the queen, but he always maintains 120,000 respect and trust in her, which no one at the time could deny, even during the war between France and Spain, the queen also She has always been sheltered under the wing of the king, whether it is the wife of the younger brother, the Duchess of Orleans, or the Duchess of Montpensier, or the king's royal wife... Except for the Queen Mother, there is no one in the Palace of Versailles. out of the right.

For six months after Queen Teresa's death, in mourning for his wife, the Sun King wore black onyx, black opal, or charcoal jewelry. For several weeks, Trianon and There were no **** at Versailles, the playwright Molière wrote in his diary—a melancholic atmosphere covered everyone like the veil of the mourners.

To say that during these six months, Louis XIV would impulsively hold a so-called "secret wedding" with another woman, even if it is said that he was to send away the pain caused by his wife's death, I have a hard time believing that, not only From the perspective of emotions, that is, from the perspective of personal morality and self-discipline, the Sun King will not leave such a black spot for himself at the last moment of his life.

In the letters displayed by the royal family, the exchanges between the king and Madame Aubigne were also extremely rational and even cold. Rather than saying that the lady had an affair with the king, it would be better to say that they were more like the king. With ministers, or envoys, this Madame Aubigne had apparently spent some time in Paris and Versailles as an envoy of the Church or Innocent XI.

   This lady also did not have any signs of suspected pregnancy and childbirth.

But a French friend of mine, whose name is also Louis, said this Louis, there are two statues in it, one with a raised robe half covering his face, the other half prostrate holding a lily with his eyes closed, The one who seemed to be taking a nap was the legendary Madame Milady who was often named - a writer wrote her in a book and wrote her as the spy of the Bishop of Mazarin. In fact, this lady is more likely to be Louis XIV's spy went to the Italian court in the last few years - given that the new king of Italy is likely to have an extremely close relationship with the Bourbon family, it is possible that she just changed her place of work.

The latter, as we all know, the sculptors and painters of Europa have an ancient tradition. Although there is no more in modern times, at that time, painting or carving a person into a sleeping state means that the person has already died.

This lady is also an unofficial lady of the royal family, and is said to have had a secret wedding with the king - which I think is very likely, since they were young at the time of the secret wedding, like Romeo and Juliet, a Sixteen years old, one fourteen years old, young and unpredictable, childhood sweethearts - Marie Mancini had grown up with Louis XIV in Germain-en-Laye.

The other thing is um um, sorry, I can't say it explicitly here - that beautiful young man, originally the Duke of Colonna, and the son-in-law of the daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Gaston, these two Although the identity gave him an orthodox proof to seek dominion over Naples and even the whole of Italy, it was agreed that he should be the son of Louis XIV and Marie Mancini, and Louis XIV would In the next two or three years, he spared no effort to pave a bright and smooth road for it.

What's more, we all know that every year on the birthday of the Sun King, the Bourbon family has a private family gathering. Well, at that time, the royal family members of this peninsula will disappear for a while for various reasons. …

Well, I won't say much about this for a while, the love component of this group portrait is not as good as other places in Paris or Versailles, such as the chapel built by Louis XV and Queen Isabella by the Grand Canal , the suite of the Bastille (allowing wives to follow their husbands, or husbands to follow their wives to serve their sentences), the hickeys and stroking marks left by ladies and gentlemen on the Maupassant statue... I have all admired and admired them, and finally , I, like many others, are ready to embark on a pilgrimage road that belongs only to lovers - the road of Adonis.

Adonis is the **** of spring and plants in Greek mythology. He was loved by two goddesses, the goddess of the underworld and the **** of love. Unfortunately, he was killed by a wild boar during a hunt. Aphrodite, the **** of love at that time Knowing this, he ran barefoot to the place where he died, and his toes were pierced by thorns along the way. The blood left behind stained the white roses, and the world has red roses since then...

  Red rose has also become the flower of love for people.

   But maybe it's because I often think too much. It's also possible that I'm the only one at the gathering point. I always feel that this road has nothing to do with love except blood.

Anyone who has read the history books knows that in the War of Spanish Succession, King William I of Prussia was a model of the weather vane. He got a lot of benefits - some people may despise his behavior, because legally, he should be loyal to Emperor Leopold I, and morally, he should be loyal to his in-law Louis XIV, the king, On the other hand, he obtained permission from Leopold I to be promoted from duchy to kingdom, and at the same time he frankly confessed to Louis XIV and his younger brother, his son's father-in-law, that he would not be able to Don't temporarily choose "neutral" - hellish neutral.

But you must also admit that William I's shamelessness and scoundrel did lay a solid foundation for the future of Prussia. His country was the least affected by this war, and his benefits were no less than anyone else's. His son She married the eldest daughter of the Duke of Orleans, the most wealthy man in France. She had a rich dowry and a territory specially gifted by the French king. Not only that, the grand county lord was also young, beautiful, intelligent and far-sighted.

   This marriage, not to mention abroad, even in China, there are countless opponents.

Even though Leopold I was promised to take half of the dowry of the grand dwarf to pay off his heavy debt to France, he was still hesitant and resentful, and no one knew if he would suddenly have something bad. Thoughts; as for other allies of the anti-French alliance, or enemies of Prussia, they do not want to see this marriage succeed; the nobles in France do not want to see the great county master and this generous dowry go to other families .

William I has always been better in his sharp eyes and decisiveness. Although Louis XIV did not regret the marriage, he had already smelled a bad smell - asking for an audience in the middle of the night of the Nth person - that is, asking the king to reconsider the great county. At the time of the Lord's wedding, Prince Frederick I of Prussia also came to Paris.

   (end of this chapter)