Chapter 1150 The Story of Paris (3)

As a cultural city, the National Library of Paris has far more readers than other cities, and the reading room is almost full of people, but it is a pity that it is in a modern style, far less gorgeous than Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre, Naturally, it will not attract tourists.

Because it is far from the city center, the outside of the library looks desolate, coupled with the manic wind, it seems abandoned here.

But around the library, a new city is being built at a fast pace.

Gucci's boss, Francois Pinault, originally planned to build his own museum in Paris, but unfortunately the plan was delayed by the procrastinating city government. He announced in April that the museum would be turned to the Grand Canal in Venice.

Even if you want to find another job, you have to find a good job first. Francois made all the preparations before announcing it.

Why did Rose dump Carl and choose Jack?

Perhaps it was because she saw the empty soul in Calkin's jade-like shell.

Libraries always give people a quiet feeling, using the poet's description: if there is a heaven, it should look like a library.

The strange thing is that Pomona didn't feel that kind of quietness in this modern place, but she felt a kind of restlessness, which made her feel very upset.

The expansion of the library is just a project of real estate development. It should cost a lot of money, create a lot of job opportunities, and enrich some officials' private pockets. All in all, it has nothing to do with reading.

This feeling was not improved until she came to the old part of the King's Library.

During the Industrial Revolution, Paris used to be a city that kept pace with London. When the ancient and the modern collide, it does not necessarily mean that one side will be destroyed.

In this rotunda, prophets and angels are not painted on the dome, but a large glass window with a steel frame structure, which allows natural light to shine in to the greatest extent.

The large central window is surrounded by 22 small windows. The rotunda is three stories high. Each floor is a circular bookcase, and the reading area is covered with blue carpet.

She could feel a "magic" that made her want to stop.

Schopenhauer said that the Latin word patientia is related to suffering.

Patience is so dull, lazy, listless, and a woman's gift.

But if the world is screwed up terribly, patience becomes extremely useful and necessary.

Harry was impatient sometimes, and Sirius had given him the double-sided mirror as a gift, and he hadn't thought of using it to contact Sirius before he acted recklessly.

The wizarding world is not all the Muggle world that pursues efficiency. He will always think of it when he slows down and thinks carefully.

It is easy to fall into the enemy's trap if you rush into the enemy's trap. Sometimes in war, patience is more important. If you act rashly, you will lose your position. If it wasn't for Severus' tip-off, Harry and the others would have fallen into the trap of Lucius and Voldemort.

They're just teenagers, and young people tend to act impulsively, which can be easily exploited by older adults who can control their impulses and think things more holistically.

Given that the old fool himself was sometimes confused, and he mistook Harry for a Horcrux, Pomona didn't bother to chase it. What's more, that kid is full of weirdness, Harry not only speaks Parseltongue, but also has the ability to sense Horcruxes, and the prophecy that Sybill Trelawney made in Harry's third year, compared to Ah Unfounded guesses like Pomona's are even more unbelievable.

A gust of wind blew behind her, and it made a whining sound, which sounded like the whimpering of a wronged soul deep in the ground, making this early summer very cold.

Her mind couldn't help but see the skull walls of the catacombs.

Paris also had a plague in 1786, three years before the French Revolution, and it was customary for people to be buried in the neighborhood churchyard. In order to bury the new dead, the bones of the former underground were dug up, as if the bones were overflowing.

It is for this reason that Louis XVI ordered the priests to use the former quarry as an ossuary and transfer all the bones from the cemetery there. Among them was Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

It's just that she may have some privileges. She doesn't have to be disassembled like other skeletons. She is relatively complete when placed according to the type of bones.

Metro, underground waterways, catacombs, no wonder there are no tall buildings in the center of Paris.

If the foundation is broken, no matter how splendidly the buildings on the ground are repaired, they will eventually collapse.

To complete the stacking of 6 million or 7 million corpses requires not only courage, but also a peaceful heart, not the kind of "adventurers" who go to the catacombs in the middle of the night to prove their boldness. .

In 1871, the Paris Commune uprising failed, and many uprising workers hid in the catacombs to escape. The government army heard the news, and they searched around inside with torches.

The stones in the quarry are used for Notre Dame Cathedral and medieval buildings. It is said that it is 200 miles long. Now only 2 kilometers are open to visit, and other places are still shrouded in darkness.

In the eyes of those rebel workers, neither bones nor ghosts are as scary as government troops.

Man finally defeated the god of death and became the most terrifying animal in the world.

I heard that the French resistance organization also lived next to these corpses during World War II and secretly set up their headquarters here. It seems that the freedom and dignity of the French people must be won by the people themselves.

The French are generally disappointed with the government. France is regressing. Let alone becoming the hegemony of Europe again, it is not bad to keep its position in the European Union.

Maybe the French Revolution was not the fault of Marie Antoinette alone. After all, when the people were in plague, famine and poverty, she was not the only nobleman who sang and danced in the Palace of Versailles. France's finances have been going downhill since Louis XIV. Louis XV raised so many mistresses, but had no money to marry his daughter. He didn't make any plans for Princess Louise's marriage at all.

But it was her fault that she did not stay firmly when the emperor wanted to flee the capital in a hurry, like Queen Theodora of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, to complete the constitutional monarchy.

It is said that Marie decapitated has a hobby, like playing milkmaid with the noble ladies in the small peasant palace given to her by Louis XVI. If she had time to read two more books and learn how to be a queen, she wouldn't end up in the end.

It is not incomprehensible that Justinian would choose a prostitute to be the queen, because with the support of Theodora, Justinian not only had a powerful army, but this army was also absolutely loyal to him, not only defending him against The Persians attacked, even though the king's order required them to raise their butcher knives to the rioting civilians.

Theodora was also the queen when she died, and Mary couldn't survive by running away, so why not give it a go?

It was Joan of Arc who brought Charles VII back to Paris, ending English rule in Paris during the Hundred Years' War.

Also a woman who caused the King of France to lose his crown.

Marie Antoinette must have never heard the adage that a purple robe is the most beautiful shroud.

This is why women should study, and it is no wonder that the codes promulgated after Napoleon ascended the throne weakened women's financial rights.

It's just that the man who has gained financial power doesn't know how wise he is, he still loves to keep his mistress so much.

Grindelwald may be able to speak well, but unfortunately no one thought of saving him after he became a prisoner.

Albus may not be perfect, but he has the loyal allegiance of many.

He had taught her to be a modest woman, and even though she had the money to wear fancy clothes, she still wore a patched witch hat.

The sorting hat is actually an old hat, but it determines the fate of many people.

"Hello, ma'am." When Pomona was visiting the reading room, a young man with green eyes and red hair looked at her stupidly and said to her in English, "May I know your name?"

Pomona smiled at him and ignored him.

"You may not remember me. The last time we met at Westminster Abbey." The young man said behind her. "I followed you into an alley."

Pomona stopped in her tracks.

Her memory flashed backwards, and there was indeed a man with a black umbrella sitting at the door of the alley.

She was also wearing high-end clothes that day, and a beggar might think it was an opportunity to follow her far away.

Until she met Severus hiding in the alley, he took her away with the Death Eater's flying technique, and went to the cemetery where their daughter was buried.

"I remember your hair was silvery white back then."

"Who are you?" Pomona looked back at him.

The young man held out his hand towards her.

"I am a disciple of Nick Flamel, Carnelian, and I have been waiting for you for a long time."