Chapter 1347 Dessert War

Nobles in the old days often lived in some ancient neighborhoods, in old single-family houses. It looked a bit bad from the outside, and all the stairs were a little dirty, but once you open the door of the house and enter, you will feel like you are in the house.

In another world, everything in this small world is noble, elegant, and exquisite as new.

To a certain extent, life in Napoleonic France's middle class and former aristocracy was the same as it had been before, just as it had not changed since the reign of Louis XIV. The only thing that had changed were the servants, some of whom were very old.

They also have to serve the director. These old servants remind Georgiana of Kreacher, a chatty house elf.

During the "honeymoon period", Leon seemed to like to play dress-up games, and often took Georgiana to various parties in these "upper-class" circles.

The phenomenon of food shortage is invisible in the homes of these wealthy people. All kinds of delicacies are served in the form of buffets. She originally wanted to persuade her, but later she couldn't help but eat the delicious delicacies.

A reception party was to be held at the Tuileries Palace to welcome the British envoys. Although Napoleon's sisters were masters at organizing balls, Bonaparte believed that such balls were not suitable for formal diplomatic occasions.

Of course Georgiana, a British person, knows the habits and customs of the British best, but the state banquet cannot be without some French characteristics, so he used work as an excuse to go out and have fun.

Any money gained suddenly is wasted quickly.

On occasions when Bonaparte appeared, the ladies dressed very conservatively, and now they were dressed like the "Greek goddesses" during the Directory period, with their whole bodies covered in tulle, almost as if they were not wearing anything.

At first she was very "English" angry, but after thinking about it, it didn't matter. Plato advocated that everyone take off their clothes to "inspect the goods" before getting married. This was an ancient Greek custom. Helen of Troy was raped by many men before getting married.

Checking, Bonaparte, who originally wanted to see her reaction, was amused by her words.

He was very serious when pretending to be a national hero. He wore the clothes of a "rich man" and pretended to be an aristocrat. The aristocratic men's clothes were still breeches, white stockings, and a very tight bow tie. He was dressed so carefully but walked in the filthy streets of Paris.

What a waste of effort on the streets.

Bonaparte accompanied Georgiana to buy vegetables once, wanting to experience the life of an "ordinary citizen", but as soon as he reached the door of the vegetable market, he didn't want to go in.

The general who stepped over the mud of human blood and piles of corpses on the battlefield was disgusted by the scene in the vegetable market. The wooden boards between the stalls had not been replaced for hundreds of years and were soaked in dirty water and became moldy. The air was filled with the stench of dead fish, with a lingering smell.

The stinking water flowed to the ground. It was hard to imagine that such a dirty cesspool was actually in the center of Paris.

Bonaparte wanted to lay a network of pipes underground in Paris, but these nobles felt it was unnecessary. They were accustomed to Versailles-style life without sewers.

Then the Corsican got angry.

He loved cleanliness very much, and dreamed of turning Paris into a metropolis with one million, two million, or three million people, and replacing the old and tasteless decorations of Versailles with trophies collected from all over the world.

Give Paris a new look.

Georgiana had the exact opposite opinion than him. She hoped that the population of Paris would be slightly smaller. According to the information given to her by the British, when the Revolution broke out, many workers picked up guns and became soldiers. Besides, there was only so much land in the city, and it would take a long time to build a house.

Land is hard to find, and she doesn't want to see the big city disease emerge in the future.

Bonaparte, who wanted to complain to her and find some sense of recognition, turned pale with anger. Later, Georgiana reminded him that it was he who said he hoped to have less power in Paris. Only then did he calm down.

Then he took his "girlfriend" out to play.

He didn't pay much attention to food. He devoured almost all the food on his plate, very much in the military style.

But when he tasted red wine, he was completely different.

The wine the "Emperor" drinks is of course good wine. He likes Chandelier the most. When he drinks wine from Chateau Lafite in Jiuyuan, he will shake the crystal or gold cup in his hand and smell the wine. It seems that he feels that the wine is wine.

Whether it tastes good or not depends on the smell.

At that time, she would think of Rambouillet, the lord who took her from the kitchen to the castle. Outside the window were beautiful fields and canals, and a young man with an attractive face was looking at the scenery outside the window with deep eyes.

He sensed her arrival and asked her to choose the medal style placed on the table while he smelled the wine in the glass.

Maybe her silly smile entertained him. Every time she was in a daze, he would laugh loudly and wake her up from her intoxicating dream.

Later, he tried the same trick on other occasions, but no girl took the bait, and then it was Georgiana who laughed.

After the Revolution, many restaurants appeared in Paris, and the visiting shopkeepers were all chefs of the nobles. After the Revolution, these feudal nobles were either executed or exiled overseas, so the cooks had to find their own way out.

It is true that Josephine can't cook. She and the ladies of high society would go to top restaurants to dine. As for whether Napoleon would be poisoned and assassinated, she didn't seem to care.

Hubert LeBeau was Napoleon's pastry chef. He was mainly responsible for the large-scale desserts at upper-class banquets and formal balls, similar to the ice sculptures at the Hogwarts Yule Ball. The desserts he made were luxurious and eye-catching, so famous for the French war.

The Venetian-style decorated desserts became a sensation and were not comparable to the small cakes made by women.

Small cakes were served to guests in the salon, but if the cake was too big, no guest would eat the work of art. She and Hubert had different opinions on this.

Another chef who is good at styling desserts is Anthony Carem, who is from Talleyrand. He is very good at making a British cake called Charlotte cake, but the British method is to add small pieces of sponge cake on the basis of it.

White wine cream, as well as red fruit jelly and candied fruits. The French method is to place a circle of sponge cake or soft pastry around a buttered mold, put sugar-poached apples in the middle, and add lemon and cinnamon.

Then cover with custard sauce.

So Georgiana chose Karem’s French-style charlotte cake as the dessert for the state banquet.

After Hubert found out, he was absent from work from the next day.

Bonaparte laughed at her troubles, as if he did not mind at all the loss of dignity.

Of course he did not say that Marie Antoinette was an "Austrian woman" in his speech at the Luxembourg Parliament that day. This title was given to Antoinette by the French people. Now that France wants to establish friendly relations with Austria and deal with Prussia together, he

What he said was not as radical as what Godin said.

The Bonaparte family had just left Corsica and when they fled to France, they also pretended to be "rich men". People regarded their family as warriors to safeguard the cause of freedom. At that time, the National Convention wanted to issue a special order to allocate funds to compensate Bonaparte.

All the property of the Bonaparte family in Corsica was lost, so the Bonaparte family tried every means to falsely report their property, and thus received a very considerable resettlement fee.

He told Georgiana that Britain and France submitted the peace treaty because Britain was interested in the coins in the French pockets. No one really wanted to eat the food at the state banquet. Carem's Charlotte-style cake could be used on other occasions.

Then she told him about the quarrel she had with Ministry of Magic officials when they were decorating the school hall. Fudge also liked to pretend to be generous and spent a lot of money to decorate the venue, and even those from the Ministry of Magic wanted to replace her.

She told Albus about this, and Albus helped her out. Then she told him about the Slytherin and Hufflepuff girls poisoning each other before. She could buy her own groceries.

She doesn't need so many people in the kitchen to cook, and she doesn't have to worry about poison in the food she cooks. The cooks needed for the banquet can be hired from outside, not to mention that Napoleon didn't participate in any social activities, so what's the use of raising Hubert?

Let him go out and work alone.

Then she asked Sophie to write a letter to her fellow British people, asking if France would also celebrate British Halloween? Later, Sophie felt that the situation was a bit wrong and asked Gaudin to mediate.

The result of the "peace talks" was that Hubert was still responsible for making the big cake and distributing it to the poor children of the parish after the state banquet. The charity was responsible for this matter.

Although the banquet was held with money from the treasury, it was Josephine's name to share the cake.

On October 5, 1791, a group of women from the Central Market gathered at the entrance of the market at 8 o'clock in the morning to ask for bread and food. Men did not dare to make trouble. If they made trouble, they would be arrested by the mounted police. Parisian women took on the main role in the protest.

responsibility.

The vanguard of the storming of the Bastille were also women, with the National Guard behind them. At 5 pm, these women rushed to Versailles to ask for food. The king promised to send all the food in Versailles to Paris. The moment the food truck opened,

The National Guard stormed into the palace and captured the king and queen.

It is said that Marie Antoinette heard that the common people could not afford bread, so why did they not eat cake? It is a lie, but if you waste food at this time, it will give others a reason. Even if the newspapers will not publish it, it will be spread among the people. Durbar

Madame de Ligue had her portrait posted everywhere, with a handful of wattle and a V underneath the portrait, and the entire city of Paris was awakened by these words.

So Georgiana will not condemn those Parisian women wearing tulle and eating cakes. She is only worried about whether they know how to ride a horse and know how to escape when the mob attacks. If they fall into the hands of those people, they will still die.

Pleasurable.

Later, perhaps tired of the pleasure-seeking occasion, Bonaparte took her to Madame Recamier's salon.

After Madame de Staal, who "does not marry without love," was deported, the salon of Madame Récamier, the wife of the great banker Mr. Récamier, became the most fashionable salon in Paris.

This house is right next door to the slums and originally belonged to the Swiss Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's financial director. Mrs. Starr was the daughter of Jacques Necker.

Jacques Necker had a good reputation among the people and was called the "savior of France." Who saved France? The rich man or the soldier? Mrs. de Staal accused Napoleon of being militaristic, and he was an atheist and didn't believe it at all.

Catholicism and the "talents" surrounding her became the crusade against Napoleon.

Madame Recamier behaved dignifiedly, and there were no women wearing tulle in the salon. There were many Egyptian cultural relics in the room.

Some people say that Mr. Recamier, who is sixteen years older, is actually Madame Recamier's biological father, so she is not very close to him.

Monsieur Bonaparte, on the other hand, would look affectionately at every lady in social situations, as if he were the lover of them all.

Madame Recamier has a good reputation, but is there any secret communication between her and this bad guy?

Georgiana wanted to tear up the books she had read before. Why was Napoleon so devoted to Josephine?

"What do you think of the atmosphere here?" said the rich man, Chrissen.

This is his pseudonym. He previously wrote the novel "Christine and Eugenie", although he was not famous.

"Very good." Georgiana said with a smile.

"How about you decorate your place like this one?"

"You like this place?"

"I like working in a place like this." He stared into her eyes and said, "In Malmaison, I only feel calm in the pavilion outside."

"You can work in the Tuileries Palace," she said nonchalantly.

He was a little unhappy.

"This lamp is really ugly," she said, looking at the gargoyle that kept dripping oil into the lamp.

The lights in Paris are still illuminated by candles and oil lamps, which are easy to catch fire. Now she is beginning to miss gas lamps.

"What do you think of the food?"

Madame Remiel seems to have been a Parisian sensation in the art of gastronomy as well.

"These dishes are too fashionable," she said coldly, "British people are very conservative."
To be continued...