I Am Louis XIV

  Chapter 485 The Wedding of the French Dauphin (middle)

  Louis XIV may never understand the attitude of these monarchs towards their children, don't they love their children? Perhaps this should be attributed to the partiality of the church and medieval scholars in the education of their children. Those gentlemen with white hair and long beards have long forgotten their innocence as children, and they are not as innocent as their wives, at least because they were born after ten months of pregnancy. Natural emotion, when they write and publish their theories, they are completely imaginary.

Even hundreds of years later, men still feel that children are like animals, only making noise and trouble, unable to reason, unable to teach, only to use belts and sticks to keep them quiet and submissive, and even more so now, fathers Maybe also pay attention to (rather than take care of) their heirs, the sons, they have almost only one attitude towards their daughters, indifference and indifferent.

In this case, unless the mother country of the princess is at a prosperous moment, and the queen is caring enough for her children and has a strong temperament, the princess will not only be difficult to compete with her father's sisters in the court, even the "lady of the royal family", and may even be able to compete with them. She was despised by members of the royal family and great nobles, such as the former Habsburg princess Antonia, knowing that she is still called "no good or bad" because her father chose her a good husband - the head of a country, Young, of noble blood, and first married, no one cared whether Carlos II was a lunatic, deformed, or whatever.

  You must know that in the royal family of Europa, because the father was unwilling to give a dowry, or unfortunately there was no suitable marriage partner, they spent the entire flowering period in loneliness, and finally there were not a few princesses who could only die in the monastery.

If Princess Isabella mainly complained about her father or mother, she would undoubtedly be accused of being ungrateful. Fortunately, she has learned how to be silent and patient during the years outside Sintra Palace— People always think that children have no memory, and they are wrong. Children are like rosebuds. If you gently touch them with your fingers, they may only remember the warmth and thoughtfulness, but cannot clearly remember each and every one of them. Once; but if you whip it, each scar will leave a deep scar, and the more it grows, the more obvious it becomes.

Princess Isabella not only remembers the wet nurse - she was fostered in the nurse's home, and the wet nurse was not good to her, perhaps out of contempt and hatred for an illegitimate daughter, she said that Isabella was a villain. , not the princess; the children of the wet nurse bullied her in every possible way—in any case, as the daughter of the regent, she had nothing to lack in material.

   But none of these were as profound as what happened to her when she was five years old.

  Her happiness today, and even that of Portugal and those of the people, is built on the grave of a noble and innocent man. She would always wake up from her dreams and think in cold sweat how Alfonso V looked at her with a complicated expression. His appearance was very vague in Isabella's impression, but recently it has become more and more complicated. The clearer it is, Isabella doesn't think it's because she later saw the portrait of the former king in the Sintra Palace, because Alfonso VI was poor at the age of three, and because of this disability. He has mental problems, so this portrait was painted by the artist with reference to the young Prince Pedro, maybe from that day on, Prince Pedro was preparing to enter the Palace of Sintra.

People say that Alfonso VI was a man who was punished by God or cursed by the devil like Carlos II, but Princess Isabella didn't think so, she recalled time and time again that Alfonso VI fell in The hand on top of her head, that hand was cold and swollen due to poor blood, but was wiped clean by the person who served him. Because the owner of the palm did not have much strength, the palm was slapped down, but That weight was the best blessing Isabella could get.

He exchanged the life of the most honorable man for the engagement of Portugal and France, and also allowed her to escape from prison. Her wet nurse had been saying for a long time that she would be sent to the most remote monastery. End his life in chanting and penance.

There were many times when Princess Isabella wanted to tell the Dauphin of France about this in a letter, but she also knew that their letters were subject to review, and sometimes she could even see the paper rolled up. Or turn yellow, which is caused by the agent of Pedro II wiping the stationery with potion to see if there is any cipher text in it.

In this letter from the young Louis, it is very likely that their wedding will be brought forward—Louis XIV has obtained a papal pardon—because for the next several years, Louis XIV may be at any time in his own hands, not in Paris and Versailles. , unable to officiate their wedding. Although it is not impossible for the dauphin to hold a wedding without the king, such behavior may be interpreted as the king's dissatisfaction with his son's bride, and for a foreign king-dauphin, such rumors will make it difficult for her to move in Versailles. .

Therefore, although Princess Isabella has not yet reached the established marriage age, the wedding must be held around this year's Assumption of the Virgin Mary. "There will be several months of triumph and celebration after that." Little Louis said, Apologize to the princesses too, for these ceremonies combined their wedding with the joy and honor of the latest victory in the Anglo-French naval battle, and Louis XIV also wanted to ease the tense heartstrings of the French people a little. 2. This time, he still does not intend to levy extra war taxes on the people, but uses royal income, war debts, war gains, and compensation to deal with this monstrous expenditure. In this case, his people should continue their usual peaceful life. , for him to farm, work, study, and spend every day normally and happily.

This description made Princess Isabella feel novel. She was not liked by Pedro II, and it was impossible for the princess to intervene in the government - neither the queen, but the royal wife might stay by the king's side to slander or investigate But she can read, read history books and newspapers, and know that whenever the war begins, the king has the right to collect war taxes from the people, and not once or twice, but to see the progress of the war, and collect it several times in a row. It is also possible.

   Also, the amount of this tax was fixed by the king.

So after every war, there will be famine and plague, which will bring endless death, just as described in the Bible, the four angels of destruction, war, famine, plague and death always come together, war is a huge blood-sucking A monster capable of sucking a rich country down to the point of withering its flesh and blood.

She wasn't sure whether what the Prince Louis wrote was true. She tried to ask the maids around her, but they either didn't know anything or strictly prevented her from continuing to care about these issues - this is the prerogative of men, as A princess, future queen, her questions are very indecent. After Versailles has surpassed Sintra as the most fashionable and harsh place in Europa, if she is not careful in her words and deeds, there may be more terrible consequences than death.

Yeah? Princess Isabella didn't think so. She didn't naively think that there would be any romantic love at first sight between her and the crown prince who had never met, but she could see from the correspondence that the crown prince was at least honest and honest. The tolerant people, and the people of Versailles and Paris, were not as harsh and critical as they were told her.

  Because the Sun King Louis XIV loved his children very much.

Not only his heir, the crown prince Louis and Prince Charles, who has the right to inherit the Spanish throne, he is also caring and caring for the eldest princess Elizabeth. This kind of love is different. To put it simply, this kind of love includes expectation and support, just like treating a boy. People talk about it but he doesn't care.

This kind of afterglow also illuminates the people around, from the Duke of Orleans to Henry, the son of the Grand Condé, and even to the future wife of the prince and the son of the Duke, she, the daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the future of the French royal family. The new members are all grateful for its favor.

   It is precisely for this reason that she is not afraid of the upcoming distant marriage, and even looks forward to it. The crown prince said that in Paris and Versailles, the ladies are already preparing to pick up a women's university, not the kind of monastery teaching, but the same as the previous universities, teaching philosophy, mathematics and medicine, those who used to be in junior high school. Students who have studied at the first-class women's college can choose to continue their studies after graduation, and unmarried women and married women are treated equally. The crown prince even said that if she wanted to, she could go to school and be taught by those wise men and elders, and in the future she could become a mentor to noble girls, educate their children, or be a scholar... God! It's really terrible, Princess Isabella can't believe it, how could such a thing happen? !

   After reading the letter, she realized why her father had summoned her to the study, and then handed the letter to her in person.

Pedro II was not a benevolent good man, but he was clear-headed, and real smart people don't go with the flow like ordinary people, they know very well that women may be slightly inferior to men in physical strength, but they are no different in mind, Sometimes a little better, but for various reasons, deliberately pretending not to know, or talking nonsense--Louis XIV of France was willing to treat his daughter leniently, of course he was pleased and threatened-I Princess Sabella will inevitably prefer France to Portugal in the future, but he is not willing to condescend to emulate the French and apologize to his daughter and make amends.

   Yes, both as a king and as a father.

The kings of Europa learned a lot from Louis XIV, standing armies, flintlocks, artillery, iron armor, even potatoes, coffee, and corn—but there were a few things they abstained from or couldn't do, they couldn't do as well. Like the Sun King, he would rather open the king's private treasury and mortgage the palace than collect extra taxes from the people, and can't be lenient with the people who are newly occupying land and colonies. Incidentally, they can't even recognize those black, brown and yellow skinned. , those who do not believe in God are also "human" like them; they cannot tolerate the existence of heathens, or oppress and monitor them; they are even less able to enlighten people's wisdom, because once everyone has the ability to read and think the ability of the people they used to rely on will collapse silently... They don't understand why Louis XIV did it - he was a man who was willing to support the Duke of Cornwall to return to England and take back the throne - he said no Will not support the thugs who oppose the monarch, why can he bury such hidden dangers?

   As for the kindness of Louis XIV to women, it is a small problem. More people, not just kings, just feel weird. Boys can still grow up. For them, women are children for a lifetime, and they need guardianship and management throughout their lives. Such an existence requires them to do the work of men. Why? Isn't it ridiculous?

   But Pedro II can also see that Paris and Versailles, and even the whole of France, may be the paradise that women yearn for in the future. Women are just as greedy for power, especially the privileges that once belonged to men - he sent this letter to his wife Savoy's daughter, the Queen of Portugal, and to his royal wife, or a few noble ladies. However, they either doubted, or cursed, or laughed, or thought it was impossible, and the only thing that made no difference was the sudden burst of light in their eyes—in an instant, dazzlingly dazzling.

Pedro II finally decided not to think about it, and soon after, Isabella was the dauphin of France instead of the Portuguese princess, and he put the chips in his hand to Louis XIV's side - because of the battle of France at the Double Bay The great results achieved by the fleet were also because the people of Catalonia not only expelled the Spaniards on the ground, but also gave their loyalty to Carlos III of France, and I do not know when they came to Roussillon and Orleans of Barcelona. The duke accepted the city keys and maps they presented as an agent, and the duke of Luxembourg would serve Carlos III to the coronation at the Basilica of San Francisco in Madrid.

It is worth mentioning that, in fact, successive Spanish kings were crowned in the Cathedral of Toledo, because although the political center of Spain moved from Toledo to Madrid, the religious center did not move, and was still in Toledo. Now Toledo and Madrid are like two small courts, Toledo resolutely does not recognize Carlos III of France, so Carlos III can only be crowned in Madrid, and the Church of San Francisco in Madrid was originally a monastery, but since Louis Fourteen so decided, it will replace the cathedral of Toledo in the future.

  Like the Archbishop of Toledo.

   (end of this chapter)