Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1664 The Secret Word of the Goddess (9)

In addition to the rose line, the designer of the Saint-Sulpice fountain, Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, is also the designer of the new Louvre and the designer of Napoleon’s tomb in the Les Invalides. There are 12 Victory goddesses around Napoleon’s red stone coffin. However, in the fountain in front of the Second Cathedral in Paris, Visconti chose to sit with four cardinals from the time of Louis XIV.

  In addition to solving the mystery, Severus has to find the location and order of these items. Just like the "two-faced man" foretold, this is just the beginning.

In fact, St. Sulpice’s Church is not far from Luxembourg. It is only a few minutes’ walk away, but it can be seen more clearly from a high altitude. If you add the Great Explorer Park on the south side of Luxembourg, it looks like a huge Latin Cross .

To the east of the Luxembourg Gardens is Avenue Michel, and to the south is the Paris Observatory. In fact, the Saint-Sulpice Fountain does not pass through the rose line exactly. The real rose line is inside the cathedral. The golden rose line is only as thin as a thumb. , If you look at it from a high altitude, you can't see it at all.

  Luxembourg Palace is also on the rose line. After crossing the rose line, it is equal to the east. The gardens on the west emphasize geometric lines, and even the trees must be trimmed into geometric shapes. The gardens in the east emulate nature. According to the position indicated by the circle on the picture, Severus landed in the eastern part of Luxembourg Gardens. There were almost no people in the park after nightfall. There were many flying insects flying around the street lights. There are many sculptures of women under the trees of the forest. They are not like the goddesses depicted in the artwork. They wear layers of clothes, posing various shapes and gestures in the forest that presents natural forms.

In addition to Marie de' Medici, the Medici family also has a queen of France, her name is Catherine de Medici, that is, Catalina dei, who presided over the construction of the artificial lake diversion channel of Monsouri Park. · Medici, she was the wife of Henry II of Valois, and the mother of three subsequent French kings.

Not every Queen Regent was born to be a Queen Regent. Catherine Medici was the only daughter of the Duke of Urbino and his wife. It is said that her parents were as happy as a boy when she was born, but within a month of her birth The parents died one after another. King François I of France, who had accepted Leonardo at the time, hoped to take Catherine to France and grew up at the French court, but Pope Leo X had other arrangements for her.

  This girl grew up in Florence. The residents of Florence call her the "little duke". If she were a boy, she would inherit the title of Duke of Urbino.

  She is not very beautiful, but the people seeking Catherine lined up, including the King of Scotland and the Duke of Orleans, the second son of the King of France.

At that time, there were constant disputes between Protestantism and Catholicism. The successor Pope Clement VII married the "little duke" to the Duke of Orleans. In the first year of her wedding, Catherine rarely saw her new husband, but the women in the court treated her. Very well, they were also impressed by Catherine’s intelligence and likable enthusiasm. However, with the death of Clement VII, Catherine’s position in the French court was shaken. Her husband estranged her and had a mistress. In the first ten years of marriage, she had not given birth. Instead, the mistress of the Duke of Orleans called a daughter, which proved Henry's fertility, which invisibly gave Catherine tremendous fertility pressure.

Whether or not it is a goddess from a Renaissance painting, the one who cannot have a child is fatally wounded. Later, with Henry’s brother, François caught cold and fever after a tennis match, and soon after his death, the second son, the Duke of Orleans, became The crown prince. At that time, many people thought that France was the country of France, and suggested that François I abolish the relationship between the crown prince and Catherine and marry another fertile prince.

  But François I did not do that. Catherine only had her first daughter after ten years of marriage. She named the girl after François. After that, she and Henry gave birth to 8 more children, of which six survived when they were babies, but her fertility cannot improve her marital status. In the same year Clement VII died, 15-year-old Henry had a 38-year-old mistress, Diane de Podiat.

Henry did not allow the harem to do politics, but gave Diane a lot of power. Even in front of the royal ministers, Henry would sit on Diane’s lap and talk to them like a child. Diane never regarded Catherine as a threat. He even encouraged Henry and Catherine to have more children.

In 1556, Catherine almost died while giving birth to twin females Victoria and Joao. The surgeon interrupted the legs of Joao, who was already dead, in her womb and saved her life. However, the surviving daughter, Victoria, did not survive the full moon. After a long time, Catherine also lost her fertility.

  It is said that on her wedding day, Henry once contested the horse and spear for her. He has always been a "champion." When Henry was 40 years old, he had to compete with the young Earl of Montgomery. This time the "champion" was lost. The Earl of Montgomery's spear not only hit the king's head, but also smashed the spear into pieces. Hit Henry's eyes and brain.

  In the next ten days, Henry's situation was ups and downs, and he could sometimes be sober to dictate letters. He slowly lost his sight, language ability and reason, and soon died. Since then, Catherine has taken a broken spear as a memorial with the inscription "My tears and pain are here". At the same time, Catherine de Medici became the regent queen.

  But the first thing she did before she dealt with political affairs was to expel Diane de Podiat from the palace.

  If Diane was barely able to be alive when she was 38 years old, she will be 60 years old 22 years later. In the era of 35 years of life per capita, her age is already considered high.

  Catherine forced Diane to surrender the royal jewels and drove her out of Chenonceau Castle. Then Catherine tried her best to erase Diane’s traces, just like doing a general cleaning.

  When everything is done, the Queen Regent begins to deal with the problems between Protestants and Catholics. Compared with the male ruler, Duke Guise, Catherine took a more moderate approach. She and the Minister of the Seal, Michel de Lopitar, established the "July Decree", which prohibits the holding of reformist services in public or private, and intends to use marriage to marry her daughter Margo to Nava Henry pulled to ease the situation in France at that time.

However, an unexpected accident occurred on the wedding day. A killer tried to assassinate Admiral Kliny. This man was an important figure in the Huguenot sect. However, the assassination was unsuccessful. Kliny was only seriously injured and was not killed. Death, it's just that this incident aroused strong anger from the Huguenots.

  The hope of peace is shattered, the night of St. Bartholomew erupts, the poet writes hymns in ecstasy, and Roman bells are ringing to thank the grace of living. No one thinks this is sinful.

  There is a kind of weak and incompetent person in this world who can't kill people.

  After becoming the regent queen, Catherine de’ Medici also repaired the Tuileries, but being a regent is not just about repairing the garden, wearing royal jewelry, and partying marriages.

  There are things Pomona can’t do.

  In the depths of the forest, Severus found a corner that seemed to be forgotten. There was a long waterway.

The waterway is full of broken branches and fallen leaves. Obviously no one has cleaned it for a long time. At the end of the waterway, there is a group of sculptures. A pair of young men and women sit under a stone. On the stone stands a bronze giant. It is looking down at the pair. Young men and women, behind it is a huge stone Baroque screen, and on the top of the screen is the face of a woman with her eyes closed.

"This is the fountain of innocence." Gonsey walked out of the bushes behind Severus. "The Cyclops fell in love with the Sea Nymph, but the Sea Nymph fell in love with the Shepherd. The Cyclops was jealous of the Shepherd and the Sea Nymph. Her love smashed the shepherd to death under the boulder. The sea fairy cast a spell to turn the crushed shepherd into a fountain, and her lover also became a river god."

  Severus looked at the couple. The woman was crying while hugging the man, and the man was lying on his back, looking lifeless. The composition was similar to the Pieta in St. Peter's Church.

   "So, it's not water coming out of this fountain, but blood, right?" Severus asked calmly.

   "That's right," Gong Saiyi said.

   "I know that the Hundred Armed Giant guards the hell, and Cronus is held there," Severus said.

  "The Cyclops and the Hundred-armed Giants are the children of Gaia and Uranus, or the monsters they made." Gonsai said with disgust.

  Severus approached the sculptures to take a closer look.

  The eyes of the Cyclops were closed, and it seemed that he couldn't bear to watch this scene before him.

"After the Trojan War, Odysseus got lost on the way back and met Cyclops on an island." Severus said. "In order to get out of trouble, Odysseus drunk the Cyclops with wine, and then used it to burn red. The stakes pierced the eyes of the Cyclops."

   "You mean it's blind?" Gonsai asked.

   "Blind love, should we find some wine?"

  "You want to fill this pool with wine?" Gong Saiyi looked at the long waterway, "Do you know how much wine is needed?"

   "Wine can be bought with money." Severus looked at the beautiful sculptures of men and women and said, "And it's better than blood."

  　 The prototype of "Innocent Fountain" is the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens

  　　 is like the entrance to the magical world of Paris is a sculpture in the Paris opera

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