I Am Louis XIV

This appetizer soup is tomato beef soup. Since potatoes, the French have been very accustomed to their kings constantly introducing various fresh fruits and vegetables from the colonies. Tomatoes are the most popular one because it can be used as a fruit. , can also be used as a vegetable, or as a seasoning. This sweet and sour thick soup is the best for appetizers, followed by another soup with a milder taste, mushroom cream pigeon soup, pigeons only use pigeon meat, It tastes sweet and refreshing.

After the two soups were used up and the dishes were removed, the servants walked back and forth like shuttles on silk threads, changing the tableware for the king and the guests, and sending warm towels to wipe their fingers. The result of two meals in one-palm-sized pies, brioche and sausages, and a little honey compote, the third course was a rich lamb, which the chefs stuffed into the belly of the lamb. Oranges, lemons and olives, as well as potatoes, oranges and lemons can dissolve the weird taste of mutton, while potatoes absorb the fat of mutton, and the taste is not inferior to mutton.

Then came fried quail. The meat of the quail was marinated and added with rosemary and parsley, just like the cumin in the mutton before. When he picked up a quail's leg and began to munch it, everyone did—Louis didn't know it at the time, but his one-time rashness caused hundreds of years to come. From France to the whole European people, they will eat quail with their hands, and it is called orthodox. When a tourist walks into a restaurant and orders fried quail, the waiter will take away the tableware in due course and serve it warm. Hot hand towels—a tradition that has been carefully studied and considered to be the first time the Sun King asserted his authority at Versailles...

But as an inexplicable tourist said on his online account: Maybe the Sun King at that time just thought it was easier to eat like this.

He was right, Louis XIV was a clean freak, and many dishes should use spoons and forks, but certainly not fried quail, first of all, the dish is too small, and second, deep-fried As a result of pickling again, it was still slippery, and finally the king had wiped his hands clean.

I have to say what it means, probably because Louis no longer needs to suppress himself too much. He once accepted the arrangement of the bishop and the queen dowager docilely, but he also complained that the ministers were too concerned about his privacy, and his indulgence of himself , is moving forward step by step according to all his rights, fried quail may be one of the smallest things - when he sits in his new palace, overlooking those nobles and important officials, even a small movement When someone speculates and imitates, of course he doesn't care about his posture of enjoying the quail—not to mention that it is a great sin to let the burnt, crispy and tender quail sit for an extra minute.

But when he noticed that the crown prince, the princess, and the princess were also handling the quail carefully, he tore open the quail for the prince, princess, and princess with his own hands, and then...Little Cologne The Duke of Na, the Duke of Colonna, as a special guest, was at the top of the long table closest to the king, and he could see the king as soon as he looked up. The Duke was even a little surprised when he replaced the previous quail plate.

The people present were tacit about this. Although the little Duke of Colonna said he was a courtier, many people knew his true identity. Even if some people were not very clear, just look at the faces of the crown prince and the little Duke of Colonna. , their ages are too close, even if one has black hair and the other has blond hair, there are still many similarities. When the crown prince grows up, if he is like Louis and Philip, his hair color will gradually change from light blond to golden brown or tawny, then no one would doubt their kinship.

The Dauphin was also looking at the little Duke of Colonna. When the Duke got up to thank him, but before he could look away, their eyes met. Even Molière or Corneille could not describe the complexity. Luciano Slightly longer than little Louis, it is impossible to say that they are as innocent and innocent as their peers in later generations. The strange thing is that both Luciano and little Louis felt a little jealousy, but also hugged each other. With a sympathetic attitude, Luciano is of course jealous of little Louis' identity, and what little Louis is jealous of is Louis' guilt towards Luciano, but on the contrary, Luciano pities little Louis for not being able to obtain the purest and complete love from his father Little Louis sympathized with Luciano never being able to reveal his true identity to the world.

But this fried quail will save the little Duke of Colonna a lot of trouble. As an Italian, he is a foreigner in the French court, but now, even if he is not the king's illegitimate son, the king's love for him is beyond words, From now on, there is only one person who can embarrass him, and that is the Queen Mother, but he is also the son of Louis, so why would Queen Anne embarrass him?

Some people also went to peek at Queen Teresa's expression. The queen was calm and composed. Let alone France with the tradition of royal wives, any king must have a lover and an illegitimate child. Louis respected her enough, but that's enough. The queen noticed that Mrs. Lavallière, who was at the end of the table, seemed to be unable to eat. Thinking that she had just lost a child before, she couldn't help but soften her heart. When the fish soup came later, Lavalier Mrs. Hall has a lot here.

Mrs. Lavallière knew that she should express her gratitude to the queen. In the court, there were many royal wives who jumped directly above the queen by relying on the king's favor, but that was the kind of person Louis hated the most, and, speaking of The king's love, the only real possession may be Mary Mancini, the Duchess of Colonna who stayed in Calais. She knew that she couldn't show an ugly look at the king's first banquet in Versailles, but when she saw the little Duke of Colonna, she felt sore in her heart. Marie Mancini lived up to her name at all, she only used One sentence destroyed Mrs. La Vallière's hope. The king was unwilling to let Mrs. La Vallier give birth to real children for him. False words can't even deceive her clansman—she and the king, no, her love for the king is no longer bound by a contract.

At this moment, she even had an extremely evil thought, it would be great if Mary and Mary Mancini's children could disappear, but fortunately, this thought was only fleeting, after the cold dish, that is, the vegetables came out , she had suppressed the evil thought—after the cold cuts, came the fruit and desserts, which were brought to the table in a hand-clasped basket—apples, grapes, oranges, fresh or pickled. Peaches, and cakes, marzipan, and the queen's favorite chocolate.

The king personally took a chocolate wrapped in rum to the queen, and the queen smiled back. Then, under the watchful eyes of the people, the king put the other chocolates on a plate, and the attendant brought them to Lavalier Mrs.

Mrs. Lavallière made a mistake at this time. She failed to thank the king immediately. You can say that it is a kind of arrogant behavior, which is very common among royal ladies, but more people can see that Lavallière The madam was rude. There must have been rumors in the court for the next few days. The Duke of Orleans immediately held out a plate to the king as if making a joke. The king squinted at him and put some peas on the plate. The Duke of Orleans immediately revealed With a resentful look, the thing he dislikes the most is vegetables. Even beans are the same.

This move came very timely, and people's attention was immediately drawn away by Brother Wang. They remembered this interesting story in their hearts and planned to bring it up at a later salon or banquet, so that they could show off their love to people without being so obtrusive. He was also the king's guest. This was the first banquet in Versailles, so there were so many guests. If he wants to dine with the king again, his hope is not so great.

Prince Conti watched this good show with great interest, which may be more fascinating than the drama arranged by the king after the banquet. He was not worried at all about whether he would have a chance to dine with the king, although he was not as good as his brother Condé. The prince is so brave and good at fighting, but he has done well in the two important tasks entrusted to him by the king. It is very clear from what he has done today. Note that this duke is also quite famous in the court, mainly because he married a woman who has no title, no surname, and no dowry. The Duchess of Termar has never appeared in the court, but the heir she bore to the Duke of Mortermar is already the best playmate of the Dauphin Louis - people say that the woman is a witch who used her beauty to stun the Duke In the end, Prince Conti must say that he is also very curious, but in view of the sacrifices made by the Duke of Mortmar for this lady, if he asks to meet her, the Duke of Mortmar will definitely throw a duel in his face Book.

This should be avoided, Prince Conti, who thinks he is better at playing the flute or dancing than swords or muskets, thinks so. What's more, it is said that the three daughters brought by the lady before, that is, Mote The second favor that the Duke of Mar obtained from the king, after they obtained the surname of the Duke of Mortmar, they also received a dowry, and the eldest daughter seemed to have become the wife of a marquis.

What was strange about Prince Conti was the expression of the Duke of Mortmar. He had been looking at the king, but unlike others, he was not admiring, not loving, not fearing, nor longing—the desire for the power of the king to bring him The benefit that came from him, but another kind of more subtle...like the kind that was taken away by the king, but he couldn't speak.

Even Louis probably couldn't imagine that what the Duke of Mortemal was worried about was the lady's eldest daughter, that is, the eldest daughter of Varo Vesalius. She is now the Marquis of Montespan, but this matter The marriage was not out of love or secular pressure. In fact, the reason why this bold lady accepted the marriage was to go to the king and replace Mrs. La Vallière as the royal wife of the king. The Duke of Temar couldn't help being stunned - yes, his wife's color has not diminished for more than ten years, and because of the pampering, she has become more beautiful and moving, and her daughter seems to have inherited her beauty and charm, Even though the Marquis of Montespan knew that the Duke's daughter was not worthy of her name, he still succumbed to her skirt as soon as he saw her, willing to be her servant.

This time the king returned to Paris, if Mrs. Montespan hadn’t been pregnant—under the persuasion of the Duke, she agreed to give birth to an heir for her husband first. The date of birth is just a few days. She will never be allowed to travel hundreds of miles to Versailles, and she is not willing to let the king see her bloated appearance-otherwise, people's attention in today's court will definitely not only be on Mrs. La Vallière or on the queen.

No one knows about the distress of the Duke of Mortemal. When Prince Conti went to watch the open-air drama together, he tried a few words, but how could the Duke let him find out easily-he disapproved of Mrs. Montespan Thoughts, although Mrs. Montespan is not his biological daughter, and the time between the two of them is not very long (the three daughters all grew up in the monastery), but his wife loves this daughter deeply, and he does not care about it at all. I don't want her to worry about this daughter.

But he was really not sure how to convince Mrs. Montespan. She was a child with a lot of opinions and thoughts since she was a child, and she was even a little cold, or very cold. He had read the letter from Luo Vesalius. Although there were many instigations from the Earl d'Artagnan, that letter, to put it bluntly, was to let Valo Vesalius die.

This is because the Duke of Mortmar is only willing to recognize them and give them a dowry, but he has never been able to love his house and accept them from his heart, especially the eldest daughter.

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Louis didn't notice the strangeness of the Duke of Mortemare, and also said coldly that he had nothing to give to the Duke of Mortemart recently, so of course he didn't pay much attention to him. After the banquet, it was Molière A tragicomedy co-operated with Corneille, performed in the open air, relying on a higher position than everyone else, with curtains on both sides and behind, Louis simply closed his eyes, slept comfortably, and then There is still a dance to be held in the house, and after the dance there will be a small banquet (interspersed with gambling and games) before he can put down his tired body and have a good rest.