Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2254 Fiery frenzy (fourteen)

  St. Nicholas is the prototype of Santa Claus, but when Belgium celebrates St. Nicholas Day, no one wears a red dress with a big sack and drives a reindeer sleigh to play Santa Claus, but someone wears a beard to play the cardinal.

According to legend, St. Nicholas heard that the three daughters of a poor family could not get married because they had no money to buy dowry, so he quietly sent three bags of gold coins to the family and threw them in through the window, which happened to fall into the long tube drying in front of the fireplace. Inside the stocking, and then there are many children in the world who sit by the fire on Christmas Eve, waiting for "Santa Claus" to put presents into the stockings.

  Lily didn't believe in Santa for a long time, probably because Penny told her that it wasn't Santa who put presents in their socks, but their parents.

   Got a lot of chocolates in St. Nicholas, Georgiana, so much that she couldn’t finish it all by herself, and also distributed some to other entourages, and everyone accepted it happily. Only then did Georgiana discover the reason why Bonaparte had to turn around and go back for Christmas. Others had families waiting for them to go back. They came out for "business trips" and work. Of course, if they could go home for Christmas reunion, they had to go back as soon as possible.

Sugar from the British colonies and cocoa from the Portuguese Congo make up this bitter-sweet delicacy, and the welcome banquet organized by Rana also featured chocolate fountains and various chocolate sculptures, not just Belgian celebrities , Even celebrities from the Netherlands and Denmark gathered together, and the gorgeous dress made by Georgiana came in handy.

  Beltin was proud to tell everyone who inquired that the design of the dress was inspired by Homer's epic Iliad, which was re-engraved based on the offering to Athena, and the sequins were all diamond fragments. Antwerp has more diamond processors than Bruges. The huge and heavy diamond Georgiana, which is said to be a Mughal diamond, was not used as a necklace, but a belt made by local craftsmen and set in the shape of snowflakes. On the white gold base, there is a circle of aquamarines around it.

   She wears a dark sapphire arc necklace on her neck, a sapphire forehead on her head, and two bracelets on her wrists, but she insists on wearing only one ring, otherwise she will have large gold rings on her hands.

   This kind of occasion cannot be simple, and Bonaparte, in the uniform of the green marshal, also wore his regent's sword. If it were not for the crown, which is a very sensitive jewelry, Georgiana would have liked to wear it.

  Voldemort was once interested in jewelry, especially jewelry that belonged to celebrities. If the Gaunts were still prominent, he might have lived like a prince instead of receiving relief like an orphanage child.

  It was magic that made him special, and in terms of inheritance, he wanted a Hamlet-like history where he needed to defeat the wizard uncle who stole his father's "crown" to get "everything he deserves."

   But he was an illegitimate child, and an illegitimate child abandoned by his Muggle father and not recognized by him.

The Lancastrian lineage who lost the War of the Roses was wiped out, and only the branch that fled to France remained. John of Gaunt, like Philip I of Habsburg of Spain, chose to be with Castile. The kingdoms were married, but Constance brought a lot of wealth such as gold and silver jewelry, while Joanna wore most of Spain's territory as a dowry.

  In the "Code of Napoleon", if the mirror is not mounted on the wall and is "firm" like a permanent paste, then it is real property, and it should be divided according to the real property when dividing the family.

  Maybe the farmers who love to go to the market don’t care about their power. How many chances do they have to face a lawsuit in their lifetime? But French women, especially intellectual women like Madame de Stahl, understand how bad the new civil code is for them.

  Sometimes women make some evil assumptions together, for example, husbands use their dowry to support mistresses, why can't they get divorced in this situation?

Even Edgeworth would stay away from women at this time, and his friends had used women's dowries in some high-risk businesses. Although they won in the end, many people who had similar experiences with them ended up losing. A penny is still a small matter, and usually they still owe a lot of money. How can they live like this?

There is an article in the Civil Code that states that a wasteful person, without the assistance of an assistant appointed by the court for him, is prohibited from arranging for litigation, settlement, borrowing, receiving the original of movable property and handing over the receipt, assigning and investigating his property. The act of securing a mortgage.

   People who waste in the Twelve Tables Act are like mentally ill people who have no right to deal with their own property. The "waste people" in the Civil Code not only include women, but also some men.

   This time it was so easy to advance the sugar refinery in Ghent because, with the help of the Archbishop of Ghent, Napoleon returned the confiscated 80,000-franc annuity to his nieces. The Archbishop of Ghent is French, and his nieces are also French nobles. After the outbreak of the French Revolution, they went to Belgium to seek refuge with their uncles. Now they want to return home, but they missed the deadline set by Napoleon.

   In the past, the annuity would not be enough for each of them, let alone a few people, but now they have to live a "hard life". What's more, Georgiana also needs someone to hold the skirt. It is customary for the Duchess to hold the skirt for the king's favored mistress, and the archbishop's nieces don't mind at all after they have "promised".

  Aristocrats do not shout "do well" on the street like beggars. They dress decently, appear at the ball, bow to Napoleon, and express their submission to get some "arrangements". Mechelen had the highest council of the Habsburg family, and these nobles had intricate connections in Belgium, such as an uncle who was an archbishop.

  Some noble families in the Middle Ages sent their second son or other sons to the monastery. This is not abandoning them. If that son succeeds in the church, it will also bring benefits to the secular family.

  In the summer of 1781, Archduke Joseph II of Austria visited Belgium. At that time, the people responded indifferently to his arrival. In the following years, the policies he implemented in Belgium were met with a lot of open resistance.

No one knows what the gust of wind from Italy is going to do now, turning the deep water port of Antwerp into a punt-only port and no one protesting is also because of "historical issues", the canals are too troublesome, not as easy as the road or rail on the ground, After all, it is real estate, and water does not return to the nest like bees, and bees that return to the nest are also counted as real estate.

   Now Antwerp has an almost fanatical affection for Napoleon, and instead of following the magicians on tour, the Antwerpenians themselves arrange the celebrations every day.

But Georgiana was still scolded after the dance. How should I put it, Belgian women's traditional dress is white. When Lana came to "pick up", there were two or three hundred girls in white dresses wearing garlands, and The same number of cavalry, Georgiana's white dress dusted with diamond powder was inconspicuously thrown inside.

   She wanted to make fun of him, was it like the honor guard behind him, who also had a feather on his head, and the feather was about to hit the ceiling.

   But she still brought Bertin to see if there was any way to save it.

  I didn't expect that Bertin had prepared it long ago. When she made the "gift for the goddess" for Georgiana, she also made other long dresses.

  Napoleon loved Egypt, and all the places he appeared had Egyptian ornaments, and there was a large bronze Egyptian vase in the Tuileries Palace.

   But the problem is she's not going to the masquerade party, Halloween is already over, what is she doing as Cleopatra?

   Did not expect her ideas to be easily satisfied, Mrs. Rana said, why not have a masquerade party? And the location is the new botanical garden.

  Georgianna looked at the mysterious smile on her face and felt that it was not so simple.

   (end of this chapter)