Chapter 2679: Rush to Versailles
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On the morning of April 18, 1670, in Paris, France, the weather was a bit humid and the sky was overcast.
"Drive!" the groom spurred the horse.
A luxurious carriage dragged by four strong Arabian horses was driving the two young men, Viscount de Koscielny and his friend Sir Grenier, on the road, splashing muddy water on the side of the road. On the pedestrian, the pedestrian cursed fiercely at the back of the carriage: "Damn noble! May the devil wait for you in front!"
The carriage drove away, ignoring these little people who didn't have a carriage.
The roads in Paris are not easy to walk, the ground is full of water and mud, and there are rice fields, which is dirty enough to splash on the body.
There is no way, the municipal administration can't keep up, and the road is rugged, even the two young people sitting in a carriage with a good shock-absorbing spring chassis are stumbling.
Viscount de Koscielny’s head touched the carriage wall, and he couldn’t help but said to Sir Grenier: "My dear Mr. Grenier, you work in the Ministry of Finance. You have no money to build roads in the Ministry? Is the road to the capital of a great country? Did all the money in the ministry go to Mrs. Montespan?"
Madame Montespan, the chief mistress of French King Louis XIV!
The West is very hypocritical. Unlike the East, where the "three wives and four concubines system" came directly, in the West one can only marry one wife. The wives of the king and the nobleman are generally the product of political marriage, and the children born to them generally have the right to inherit the family.
There can only be one wife, but there can be many mistresses. There are too many mistresses of Louis XIV, so there must always be one as a facade. The other mistresses of the king are generally called royal mistresses. One of the royal mistresses is the chief mistress that the king particularly likes. The chief mistress generally has to be canonized and has the highest status, with allowances, rewards, and knighthoods.
The king's mistresses appeared in public with the king without discrimination, and the nobles rushed to please them.
The current chief mistress is Madame Montespan, who is very favored, winds and rains, so Viscount de Koscielny joked that all the money from the French Ministry of Finance was given to Madame Montespan.
Sir Grenier knew the inside story and shrugged: "It's not that the country has no money, but that the king is not dealing with his dear people!"
In recent years, the east wind has blown gradually, and more and more white skins have been to the East. They are full of praise for the two eastern China and even the countries in the Chinese cultural circle. Without saying anything, the municipal administration alone has left the white skins beyond the reach.
There are many white-skinned cities that follow the Chinese National People’s Congress to do municipal administration, and the municipal construction and sanitation are also beautiful. But excluding Paris, France, many French have been to the East. Even if they talk to the king, they are not doing anything. move.
Viscount de Koscielny also knew something inside and couldn't help laughing.
It seems that the Parisians successfully angered their king!
If Parisians in capitalist society like strikes, then Parisians in feudal society like to toss their king (Louis XVI was killed by Parisians). In the eyes of French kings, Parisians are not their own sons. The people, but the uncompromising people!
On August 26, 1648, an armed uprising of the people broke out in Paris. The insurgents built 1,200 barricades overnight, and they shot at the residences of Prime Minister Mazaran’s advocates with "Frond" (a slingshot). Anti-government uprisings also broke out in other provinces.
The riot reached its peak. In October 1648, the ten-year-old King Louis XIV ran away from the capital. He was frightened and displaced. He was deeply impressed by the violent Paris mobs clamoring to hang Mazarin.
Who is Mazaran?
Not only the cardinal of France, but also the prime minister and godfather of the baby king Louis XIV, but also the lover of the regent dowager. It is conceivable for its position and power!
The key is that Mazarin is the loyal successor to the former French Cardinal Richelieu, and Richelieu firmly supports the establishment of a centralized kingdom with an autocratic monarchy in France in order to meet various challenges at home and abroad.
In other words, Mazaran was the king's loyalty, and the mob wanted to engage in S Mazaran, which seriously threatened the vital interests of Louis XIV.
Six full years later, Louis XIV returned to Paris in 1654, but the citizens of Paris continued to riot against the royal family, making Paris chaotic and noisy, and making the king look down on Paris and its people, and simply ignored it. Don't pay attention.
He used a lot of money to concentrate on building his new home, the Palace of Versailles, southwest of Paris. Today, the two young Viscount de Koscielny and Sir Grenier were ordered to go to Versailles to participate in court events.
Leaving the city of Paris, when there were still five kilometers away from the Palace of Versailles in the distance, the road became miraculously easier to walk.
The roads were all stone slabs, smooth and smooth, and the horses immediately became interested, and accelerated on their own, so that the coachman had to stop the fast running!
Getting closer and closer to the Palace of Versailles, seeing the majestic palace with a climate from the car window made the two young people very excited, thinking that after being promoted to the king, they had to go to the town of Versailles to see what they bought. The decoration of the house, move in as soon as possible, and leave the unfriendly and overly noisy Paris city early!
In 1624 AD, King Louis XIII bought the forest, wasteland and swamp area near the original site of the Palace of Versailles with an area of 117 acres for 10,000 livres and built a two-story red brick building as a hunting palace.
At that time, the Palace of Versailles had only 26 rooms. The first floor was a furniture storage room and weapons storehouse, and the second floor was the king’s office, bedroom, reception room, wardrobe, entourage bedroom and other rooms.
If more people are brought, then others will have to live in tents.
By 1660, when French King Louis XIV visited the Viscount Vau’s Castle owned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Fouquet, he was impressed by the magnificence of its houses and gardens. At that time, the royal family was in a palace outside Paris. It can be compared.
The minister's house is actually better than the king's, how can it work!
Therefore, Louis XIV was annoyed by his failure to do his duty and threw Fouquet into the Bastille on the crime of corruption, and ordered Le Nôtre, the designer of the Viscount Vau’s castle, and the famous architect Le Vau to design a new palace for it as a new royal family. palace.
After investigation and weighing, it was decided to build a new palace based on Louis XIII's hunting palace in Versailles, and for this purpose 6.7 square kilometers of land was acquired.
The two designers designed the gardens and fountains of Versailles, and Le Vau built new palaces on the west, north and south sides of the hunting palace, enclosing the original hunting palace. The east façade of the original palace was retained as the main entrance. A marble courtyard was built. The north and south wings of the palace, churches, orange gardens, and large and small stables were added. Three radial avenues were built in front of the palace. The carriage of the young nobleman is one of them.
In order to attract residents to settle in Versailles, a large number of residential and office buildings were built in the town of Versailles.
In addition, due to changes in the situation, there are also barracks and training grounds that have introduced at least tens of thousands of troops to protect the king.
The two young nobles arrived at the Palace of Versailles. They saw that there were already a lot of nobles in the square in front of the palace. The Swiss Guard and the Royal Guard were guarded in front of the palace. They hurried forward to sign up and showed a golden invitation card to receive them. The royal attendant said: "Your Majesty will be at the Wang's Martial Arts Arena at ten o'clock in the morning. You can get there early!"
"Okay, thank you!" The two young aristocrats are not high-ranking, and can't just go to see the king casually, they can only go to the martial arts field and wait first.
