Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Thank you for your compliment, but why did you come back so early?" After hearing this familiar voice, Liang En put down the paintbrush in his hand and turned to look at Mary, who was coming after a long journey.

"I thought you would come over with Jeanne and the others after a while. After all, it's only 5 o'clock, and under normal circumstances it should end at 6 pm."

"Yes, technically it is, but I left early." Mary said with an elegant smile. “I’ve recently developed a good group of people who can get the job done at this time.”

"Of course, the more important thing is that I pay them the top 10% salary among their peers, so they should also reflect their value, such as being able to take over my job when I want to take a break."

To be honest, Mary was not a very diligent person. At least judging from historical records, his teachers thought that he was relatively smart, but he rarely had the determination to persevere in learning.

Therefore, the same applies to running this gallery now. For most people, such a famous industry naturally requires careful management, and they are not even willing to devote their entire life's energy to it.

But for Mary, this thing is just a small piece of property. She will only take care of it when she is interested. When she is not interested, she naturally does not want to be involved in mundane matters.

After all, as the queen of France, she had access to countless important items, and compared with those items, even the top chain galleries were really just a small toy in his eyes.

There are only two reasons why she pays attention to this little toy in her eyes now. On the one hand, it is because Liang En needs his help in art, and on the other hand, because she is really interested in art and can get in touch with her feelings through this method. Interesting artwork.

"It is definitely the right thing to do to find some people to help. After all, in this world, no matter how powerful a person is, he is just one person. So making full use of everyone's strength is obviously not a bad thing."

After listening to Mary's arrangement, Liang En nodded in approval. Although in some worlds where extraordinary power exists, having more people may not give you an advantage, but in this ordinary world, it is indeed an iron rule that more people are more powerful.

Especially for Mary, she runs this gallery purely out of interest rather than making a living, so in order to maintain interest, she naturally does not want to waste more time on daily operations.

Because Mary happened to arrive now, Liang En simply asked the other party to check the perfume bottle he designed and then give her opinions.

"Let me see - the design of this perfume bottle is quite interesting. It tends to be more ornate overall, but because you adopted the rococo style, the original ornate feeling was diluted a bit -"

After taking over the palm-sized wax model of the perfume bottle, Mary observed it carefully. As a former French queen, especially a queen who had received special education in art appreciation, she quickly recognized the perfume bottle. specialty.

But after studying it carefully for a while, she quickly frowned, obviously finding something that she didn't quite accept or that was difficult to understand.

"——This design is a bit strange, yes, it is strange." Mary raised her head and looked at Liang En and said seriously. "Although you are trying to look dignified as a whole, I think this perfume bottle is obviously a bit... frivolous."

As a former queen, Mary had seen countless valuable works of art, and even daily necessities seemed full of art today, and the artistic influence she received in this environment was close to those of those masters.

So after just a few minutes of observing the wax model, she discovered the foreshadowing Liang En had hidden in the perfume bottle.

"Well, this is specially designed by me, because after all, it is a perfume bottle, and the core of the perfume bottle needs to be in absolute harmony with the contents inside." Liang En smiled, and then told the design reason.

In the next few minutes, Liang En told Mary about the inspiration for this perfume design, and at the same time, he noticed that her face became a little ugly.

"Those women in the court of Versailles? This is indeed an interesting topic." Mary said in an elegant but somewhat strange tone. "If so, these frivolous designs are certainly appropriate."

For Mary, this sentence was already her most offensive language. It was obvious that his illegitimate partners of the royal family and nobles in the Palace of Versailles did not take it very seriously.

This is not out of moral disgust, because Queen Mary also had a very famous lover in history, Count Filson, so she was not morally sensitive about married people looking for lovers.

This is especially true for those monarchical countries in Europe. Until the early 20th century, these countries still had the system of kings "canonizing mistresses".

This mistress is not just a decoration. The king chooses one of his many lovers to make public and gives her a title, which is equivalent to public recognition.

The mistress of the French king not only had a room more spacious than the queen's room, but was also given a title of nobility, territory, salary and annuity. The most important task of the queen is to give birth to children and put on a good appearance.

For example, the famous Petit Trianon has been promoted as one of the evidences of Queen Marie's extravagance, but in fact this palace was ordered by Louis XV to visit his long-term mistress Madame de Pompadour in 1762. Built in 1768.

However, Madame de Pompadour died four years before it was built, and it belonged to her successor, Countess Duberry, until 1774.

After the 20-year-old Louis XVI ascended the throne that year, he gave the castle and its surrounding gardens to his 19-year-old queen Marie Antoinette, which was the source of the subsequent rumors. This also shows that the mistresses of the French king are indeed treated well.

Because of this castle, Mary suffered from the reputation of extravagance. Although it was true that she spent money lavishly and inappropriately, this reputation that arose out of thin air was still somewhat unjust.

In addition, another mistress of Louis XV, Madame Dubarly, was also fresh in Mary's memory. The two had a tense situation when they first met at a family dinner held at the Chateau Lamiette.

Marie Antoinette was disgusted by Madame du Barry's behavior, and the confrontation between the two lasted for a long time. Marie Antoinette defied court etiquette and refused to speak to Madame du Barry.

At another ball, Mary was forced to say to Madame Du Barry: "There are many people in the Palace of Versailles."

This conversation broke the norms of royal etiquette and also demonstrated Marie's dissatisfaction that Du Barry was not allowed to speak to Marie Antoinette on that occasion.

So when Mary heard about the origin of the perfume, she thought of the unpleasant past with Madame Du Barry, so even though they were hundreds of years apart, Mary was still a little sensitive to some of the women in the Palace of Versailles.

Fortunately, the process of her life and death has now made her let go of many things, including some prejudices about the story behind this perfume. So after a few seconds of excitement, she quickly recovered and commented on the perfume bottle.