Chapter 1170 The Elf of Louvre (7)

Death is a state of the soul. It’s just a change of residence. Why be so sad? My father summoned me to the embrace of another life. One day I will also summon you, and you will then summon your children, and the years will flow like this.

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——Carlo Bonaparte

The Egyptians called their land Kemet, which means black land. All land irrigated by the Nile River is this color, which is different from the red soil that has not been irrigated by the river. The pharaohs believed that the source of the Nile River flows in the underground world.

The dive originated from a cave between granite rocks under Elephant Island.

Kemet has been described in many places as a paradise, with rivers fertilizing the soil and lush swamps and meadows providing food and habitat for domestic and wild animals.

There are a large number of waterfowl on the river bank, fish are everywhere in the river, and there are solemn temples on the river bank.

Even if there are no sacrifices at this moment to devoutly chant sacrificial inscriptions to pray for the blessings of the gods, and the temple has become dilapidated due to disrepair and damage by tomb robbers, it will still not disappoint tourists from afar, and it will even be because of the gods.

The ruins of the temple give me a sense of historical vicissitudes, as if I was riding through the ruins.

In the 1870s, because of the "Egyptian Traveler's Handbook" written by Wilkinson, even Europeans who did not know much about Egypt could visit Egypt based on this travel guide. Egypt has become a popular destination for many rich and not-so-common people.

A winter resort for wealthy Europeans. There is a regular steamboat service between Italy and Alexandria.

The boom in tourism has brought European society into wider contact with "Eastern civilization".

Mark Twain once wrote about the lush scene of Egypt in his "The Idiot Goes Abroad": The endless plains are full of green and the grains are plentiful, which is really pleasing to the eye.

These "green" places are places with rivers flowing through them, with palm trees and mirage-like colonnades. Places without rivers are still covered with yellow sand, plus the Sphinx and the Pyramids, these scenery combinations

Well, in that era when there were only black and white photos, it was visually very attractive to attract people to visit this place.

Most wealthy tourists come to Egypt to relax and unwind, as described in "Tragedy on the Nile", where everyone is laid back. People pay more attention to the affairs of Cleopatra and Caesar, Antony, and the ancient gods than in London

of intrigue.

People danced on the boat, enjoyed the scenery, and occasionally walked to the scenic spots on the shore to comment on the events of thousands of years ago.

It’s easier to mind other people’s business than to deal with your own. Generally speaking, tourists always buy some souvenirs wherever they go. The antique trading markets in Thebes and Luxor are almost open and legal.

Now, counterfeiters have made so many figurines, stelae and scarabs that even the most experienced Egyptologists have been fooled. Most less affluent travelers just want an exotic piece of jewelry at home.

It doesn't really matter whether it's true or not.

Authentic pieces tended to be left to more respectable collectors, who were often museum agents. Coptic manuscripts were particularly popular with these agents, and every European museum wanted its hands on major finds and complete papyri.

The other type is the "big shot". Whether he is important because of his money or his hereditary title, only they can afford this ridiculously high price.

It is precisely because of the sky-high prices of these cultural relics that many adventurers and "freelancers", with the mentality of getting rich overnight, frantically dig up large cultural relics, burn them, throw them away, and destroy cultural relics that they think may have no value.

This has forced some Egyptologists to leave Egypt, partly because tourism and adventurers have made Egypt's oriental features less pure, and partly because of the high cost of living.

As we all know, prices in tourist attractions are high and locals will not go there, but this did not matter to Muhammad Ali, the ruler of Egypt at the time.

Rabindranath Tagore said that when a person's patience reaches its limit and becomes unbearable, that is when he awakens.

Muhammad Ali was bent on modernizing Egypt and making ancient Egypt as advanced as Europe.

He demolished the temple and used the stones to build factories to provide local Egyptians with a real economy other than tourism. Anyway, the stones would be shipped to Europe if they were kept.

Scamander retrieved the thunderbird from Egypt because the Egyptian wizards planned to use it to attract rain so that more land could be irrigated.

"Orientals" have always paid less attention to international secrecy laws. Unlike the West, their wizards not only don't have to worry about being hunted down, but also enjoy a very high status.

If a wizard has no real skills, he will be beaten or even killed. This is different from the Western concept of being burned at the stake if he is a true wizard.

Napoleon once said that he rarely drew his sword. He won victory with his eyes, not his weapons.

Although Napoleon defeated the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry, the French navy was attacked by the British fleet. In the end, only two of the 400 warships were left, which led to political turmoil in France. Napoleon felt that his opportunity had come, and he remained alone.

Returning to France, he used his authority to launch a coup and established the First French Republic.

Egypt is a long and narrow country, because it is related to the direction of the Nile River. Napoleon's battle line was therefore very long, which was a taboo in military use. Later, his expedition to Russia failed for a similar reason.

By burning the French fleet, the British indirectly did Napoleon a favor, otherwise the victorious general would have tasted a different taste of defeat in Egypt.

Courage is the source of military strength, and the short Corsican also has this characteristic. This is different from the kind of "gentleman who can go to the palace lobby" that the military academy founded by Louis XV hoped to cultivate.

The military school Napoleon attended was full of boys from marquises with prominent families.

Napoleon received a scholarship to study, and these wealthy young men often bullied him. They regarded Napoleon as a bumpkin from the countryside, and gave him the nickname "Straw in the Nose" based on the French homophony of his name.

"Shouldn't be so lucky".

The situation is not good for the little nobles who enjoy the King's Scholarship like him. They value family background more than boarders from wealthy families.

The worse one is, the more one has to compare family origins and regional differences, and Lepicard de Filippo is one of them.

His father was an army officer and a native of Poitiers. He received a scholarship like Napoleon and was also an artilleryman. He entered the Paris Military Academy three years before Napoleon. He was so fanatical about maintaining the monarchy that he always made trouble for Napoleon. Young people always

There would inevitably be conflicts, whether verbal or physical. Filippo sometimes laughed at Napoleon's accent like the sons of the marquis, and sometimes said that Napoleon was a nobleman who only became a noble by France's invasion of Corsica.

The two men often fought. Napoleon's support of Rousseau's ideas and the ancient republic were also related to this man.

After the outbreak of the Revolution, Filippo joined the royalists and fled overseas, serving successively for the prince and the prince of Condé.

There is a saying in China that the road between enemies is narrow. The earth is so big, but the two of them actually met on the battlefield after graduation. A few years later, Philippe could be said to have single-handedly blocked Napoleon's eastward march in Saint-Jean-Dacre.

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From a certain perspective, an opponent is a confidant. There is an old Chinese saying that a thousand pieces of gold are easy to get, but a confidant is hard to find.

Grindelwald was a rare confidant to Albus Dumbledore, but Pomona never dreamed that they were gay.

The feeling of shock was even more exaggerated than the first time she saw the Sphinx and the Pyramids in Egypt, although she had never seen this one of the seven wonders of mankind.

This is just like Severus doubting Sirius's orientation and thinking that he has an affair with James Potter. If Sirius is still alive, he will definitely turn into a dog and bite the old bat.

"Merlin's Beard, what happened here!!!?"

Pomona yelled at the Louvre.

After dark, the lights of the Louvre's glass pyramid turn on, making it look like an Egyptian relative reflecting the sun's rays, unlike the phantom-like feeling during the day.

Human lights try their best to create a brilliant effect, and the pool around the pyramid also reflects the sky and light. However, the scenery in the pool is not the Paris night scene with the full moon in the sky, but the Egyptian daytime with the scorching sun.

It is said that mirages often occur in the desert under the scorching sun. Those illusory oases will lead the lost people in the wrong direction, and eventually they will die of thirst or exhaustion.

She couldn't tell for a moment whether it was because she was dazzled or if it was another hallucination that wizards could see, because none of the Muggles walking in the Louvre Square seemed to see it.

"Have you ever seen such a scene?" Severus asked Gongsei.

The Earl, who was planning to change his job, shook his head with fear on his face.

"I have never seen such a thing in my whole life."

"You want to say, is it too late to regret now?" Severus asked Pomona.

Pomona shook her head.

"I don't know what to say anymore, dear, now that we are here, let's go exploring."
Chapter completed!