Chapter 1168 The Spirit of Louvre (5)

Compared with the magnificent Louvre, Montgil Street is very civilian, full of restaurants and open-air coffee shops.

After buying the tattered crystal ball from the goblin, Pomona and Severus went to the restaurant that Gonseil had mentioned.

Severus was supposed to go back to London, whether it was to deal with the werewolf problem or to see the hieroglyphic scholar at the British Museum.

But now he stayed in Paris, waiting with her in the tavern for the pretending mysterious appraiser.

Even the civilians in Paris, the most romantic city in the world, are no different from all ordinary civilians in the world. They have to go to work and commute. Coupled with the bad road conditions, Parisians waste more time commuting than civilians in other cities.

Get rid of the time for commuting, commuting, and sleeping, and the time available for meals is compressed. Some people will choose to rent a house in an apartment in a big city. Of course, this kind of apartment cannot compare with the luxury apartment in South Kensington.

Montgil Street is in the "middle" range. Monet once painted the street scene here, and there is a picture on the wall of this restaurant. The scenery of the whole street seen from the window of the restaurant seems to be the same as it was more than a hundred years ago.

The breakfast of French civilians is usually freshly baked bread and cereals, which are eaten on the way to work, and lunch is a variety of fast food, which is not at all like a real French meal. It takes two or three hours. Start with the appetizers.

Dinner is the main meal of the French. Ordinary people usually make pasta and paella, or eat it at a relatively affordable restaurant downstairs.

There is a street market on Rue Montgil, but it doesn't look dirty at all. After all, this street is not far from the Louvre, and it would be too degrading for wandering tourists to discover it.

Eating French food is not only about the food, but the environment is also very important. Looking out the window and thinking about Monet is much better than thinking about the open-air vegetable market full of garbage and dirty water. Especially raw seafood such as oysters. If mosquitoes and flies are flying around in restaurants, you will have to worry about diarrhea if you eat oysters in this kind of place.

In short, Montgil Street is a very life-like place, with some French elegance and romance, which originated from life and has nothing to do with life, just like Monet's impressionist oil paintings.

While waiting for Conseil, Pomona ordered a fruit panna cotta with plum filling, and Severus ordered a cup of black coffee. They came before meal time, and there were only two of them in the store. The boss and the waiter were behind the counter, talking in French about how to prepare for the French Bastille Day in the middle of next month.

Although few people believe that the stars will affect people's fortune as said by astrologers, yesterday was not only the summer solstice, but also the full moon.

The sun and the moon are the two stars that have the most influence on the earth. All kinds of coincidences are superimposed, which makes it hard not to care. Tonight may be a "very lively" night. Drinking something refreshing can keep people awake.

The pharaoh's curse is well known, but what comes from Egypt doesn't have to come from a cemetery to be weird.

While the Dendera horoscope board was being transported to Paris, it was heard that there was an accident.

It is very skillful to remove the stone from the ceiling without destroying it. It is necessary to build a slope along the house and then use a rolling log to let it be removed from the ceiling little by little, otherwise it will directly fall into pieces block.

As a result, the roller rods quickly wore out, and the French had to rely on leverage and brute force to transport the constellation plate onto the sled.

The sled finally reached the river, and when the French tried to transport the constellation board along the slope to the boat, it fell into the soft mud of the Nile.

After the French spent a lot of money and made the Egyptian workers spend a lot of effort to fish out the constellation board from the water and put it on the boat, the boat started to leak again.

People desperately plugged the loopholes, and finally saved the day.

It so happened that at this time, the captain refused to sail, claiming that it was a warning from the gods, who would not allow the horoscope board to leave Egypt.

Then an American ship passed by.

Sir Wilson once mentioned in his biography that what he needs to guard against in Egypt is not the locals, but people who are also from Europe and America.

Every National Day, everyone will take out the national flag and put it in front of their house. There are many apartments on Montgil Street. Residents living upstairs will put the flag on the window sill, and even keep waving it when the parade passes by.

Monet's painting is the Montgil Street where red, white and blue tricolor flags are waving everywhere during the festival.

The Americans on the passing ship saw the Dendera constellation plate shipped by the French, and they also had the idea of shipping it to their own country. But he got an Englishman to play around, and after bribing the local officials, he let the captain go down the Nile.

On the way to Cairo, the British agent of the Americans suddenly took an official document from the local government, prohibiting the French from taking the Dendera constellation board out of Egypt.

The French directly raised the tricolor flag representing France and prohibited the agent from boarding the ship.

Under international law, a ship is a "floating territory" that is completely immune to the jurisdiction of any country other than its flag state.

The National Day on July 14 every year is an important festival in France as famous as Christmas. This day is also known as Bastille Day.

The "passion" that the French captured the Bastille and sent Louis XVI to the guillotine, the British who succeeded in constitutional monarchy did not dare to experience it. The Americans were outraged. The obelisk is a representative of ancient Egyptian civilization, but Egypt is not the one with the most obelisks in the world.

Italy, Great Britain, France, and the United States all have more obelisks than Egypt. Although shipping obelisks to the United States can cause a sensation, it may not be as eye-catching as when the first obelisk arrived in the United States.

Not so with the Dendera horoscope board, the fact that the Egyptians also knew the signs of the zodiac was sure to create a buzz and make that "Yankee" famous and rich.

The British agent could not do it, so the Americans went to convince the Egyptian officials that he was the first to excavate the constellation board from the ruins.

But none of this helped. At that time Napoleon was sweeping across Europe and his reputation was in full swing. The Americans did not have enough influence in Europe and Asia. Finally, the ship with the French flag sailed to France, and it really caused a great sensation.

Since the firefighters in the Montmartre camp opened the door in 1937 and invited the public to celebrate together, the firefighters' ball has also become a traditional project, and the "arrangement" discussed by the people in the store also involves this.

This reminded Pomona of the scene of girls chasing Victor Krum when he went to Hogwarts.

It can only be said that everyone has different hobbies. Some girls like Draco's handsome ones, while others like "Fauvism". Not to mention the fact that these firefighters don't develop a muscular body for show, they're fighting fires, which is enough to get girls talking about them.

There are beauties going, even boys who are not firefighters will go, what if they are lucky? The fireman's dance was the day before the National Day. The problem was that the store's business would be very good during the National Day. Wearing glasses and looking very gentle, the clerk was very angry and discussed with the boss about vacations and overtime.

Young people want to go to the firemen's ball, but the boss refuted him, because with his appearance, he would not be allowed to go in the queue until the end of the National Day. Even if you go in, you can't meet a suitable girl, so why not work hard to earn more money during the National Day holiday.

"Merlin's beard." Pomona whispered, "Are all French people so direct?"

"What did they say?" Severus asked with feigned interest.

Pomona repeated what she had just heard.

"You can understand them talking so fast?" Severus focused on another topic.

"I understand even Mengdai guessing." Pomona said, "If it were you, how would you choose?"

"Of course to do something meaningful." Severus said without hesitation, "What about you?"

Pomona smiled sweetly thinking of the sweat-stained muscles of the handsome young firefighters.

"I will choose to rest at home. The National Day is full of people everywhere."

"You don't want to go to the Firemen's Ball?" Severus asked with a smirk.

"Hahaha." She smiled dryly, trying to get away with it.

"Don't you like to socialize?" He showed his yellow teeth and smiled maliciously.

Pomona stuffed a piece of pudding into her mouth.