Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1161 Lion Body Eagle Wings

  Napoleon’s early morning at the Tuileries often begins like this.

  He would leave Josephine’s bed very early every day, put on his robe, put on stockings, and wear a pair of green and red slippers with the soles of the sandals, and walk down the narrow stairs to the inner palace.

The air in the room is very transparent, but the smell of Paris is not good until the dung mountain that has been piled up for centuries is cleaned up. At this time, he will let the servant put a small incense burner in the room where he is active during the day. .

  Napoleon’s sense of smell is very sharp and he is easy to catch a cold, so the fireplace burns late every year before going out.

  He is a very impatient person with some rude behavior. If the handling of official documents is irrelevant, he will be thrown directly on the ground after reading it. If he needs a serious reply, he will cross it, and then he will read the newspaper. At around nine o'clock in the living room outside, there will be people waiting for him to attend the wake-up ceremony, and several privileged people will immediately enter his room, such as the costume director and the court general. These people would watch the "first ruling" wash, and talk about rumors in the palace and folk gossip. Even a lady would not shy away from seeing him, and still bathe in front of the lady.

  Napoleon especially likes to take hot baths. It is especially hot. He will brush his arms and chest with a coarse hair brush. This is a habit he developed in Egypt, and then ask the servant to brush his back.

  Almost every morning, Napoleon would yell at the manservant, "Swipe hard, hard, just like brushing the back of a donkey." It is estimated that no emperor would compare himself to a donkey, but he was very proud of it. After the shower, he shaves himself, brushes his teeth and washes his face. When he was in despair, he probably didn't even have a mirror. After he became an emperor, a male servant would help him hold the mirror. At this time, he would deliberately find some "well-lit" places and let the male servant hold the mirror and turn around him.

   Then he would put on a flannel vest, and around his neck he would hang a black velvet heart-shaped bag with a layer of skin inside which contained deadly poison for him to swallow at any time. Then he would put on the green coat of a horse hunter and a belt with a saber. Before putting on the black **** leather "little hat", he would make sure that he sprinkled the cologne on his hair, and then he would sprinkle a piece of it. The fine linen handkerchief of the cologne wipes the lips, forehead and temples.

  He put a handkerchief in his vest pocket, took binoculars, put on a candy box filled with anise and licorice, and an essential snuff bottle, put on his boots and left the bedroom.

  Sometimes he is not so particular, it all depends on whether he can go out or go to the studio for portraits. He likes to ride a carriage on the boulevards, or ride around the city on horseback. Sometimes he and Josephine play the role of an "ordinary citizen couple", wandering around the city, and listen to whether the citizens are surrounding the palace again. , The plan to assassinate the emperor.

  Napoleon did not often live in the Tuileries. He did not make the same mistakes as Louis XVI. He was stuck in the palace and could not get out. He sometimes lived in Songdanbelu, or Malmaison for a period of time. Both of these palaces are outside the city, with plenty of escape space. He will also check the accounts of the court. If he finds that the cost of buying stockings and candles is too high, he will be surprised and complain that others don't want to put all the accounts on his head.

  The emperor before him would have a lot of people to accompany him to dinner, at least a beauty would accompany him, but Napoleon stood alone at a small round table for dinner. There are many orders for serving French food. It may take more than an hour for a complete set of procedures. Napoleon usually finishes it in seven or eight minutes, and the longest does not exceed twenty minutes. His food is not very elegant. Potatoes, beans, peas, and pastries are swallowed without chewing, and he especially likes pasta.

  Because of family inheritance and long-term bad eating habits, he is particularly worried that he will get stomach problems and must drink Shangbeidan red wine at every meal. If he eats too much, he feels uncomfortable in his stomach. He goes back to the first floor and spends a while with Josephine. Later, this person becomes Mary Louise, but this beautiful Austrian court flower does not go out of the palace, so there is nothing to talk about. , So he took this opportunity to take a nap and rest, and began to prepare for the next boring palace life.

This is the reason why the French emperor wants to build the Louvre. It’s boring. The king’s reception room is sometimes called the “drawingroom”. It is a big event for the painter to paint his own portrait even for the king. For less formal occasions, the key is to spend time. Later, the kings had other pastimes, such as playing poker, bridge, telling ghost stories, letting musicians add to the fun, or simply having a dance party. This "drawingroom" is more than just Used for painting.

  Napoleon particularly liked the masquerade, and he improvised a section of himself when the party was about to end. But more time, Napoleon would review the minister's memorials behind the large desk decorated with the lion-shaped eagle-headed eagle-wing monster.

  When all this is done, he will go to bed at about ten o'clock, sleep for two or three hours, get up so full of energy to continue working, take a bath at two or three in the morning, and then sleep for a few more hours.

  The years of military life and the hidden murderous emperor's life made him unable to sleep peacefully, but the peaceful sleep that a beggar can enjoy is a luxury for the first ruler.

  Before Napoleon, no emperor lived in the Louvre, it was just a place for the nobles to have fun.

After Napoleon, no emperor lived in the Louvre. Napoleon III turned the Louvre into a place for royal celebrations. From the construction of the Louvre to the final public museum, only Napoleon Bonaparte was in Louvre. Lived in the floating palace.

  On the basis of Louis XIV, Napoleon expanded many houses and added two wings, using thousands of tons of artworks and books to decorate the palace in Europe.

Napoleon's brilliance in the Louvre lasted for 12 years. A group of art works until he defeated Waterloo. After he lost power, many artworks returned to their original owners. However, due to the French diplomacy, many of the artworks plundered by him remained the same. Was left in the Louvre.

Among them is the "Wedding in Ghana" painted by Paul Veronese. It is hung in the Mona Lisa Hall, and it is directly opposite the Mona Lisa. The audience can watch it as long as you turn around. Here it is, and it is still the largest oil painting in the Louvre collection. It is on the whole wall.

Since the Italians said that the exact same "Wedding in Ghana" in the Church of Our Lady of Ann Kang was painted by Tintorito, then it was really painted by Tintorito. The French put it in the Mona Lisa Hall. Here, it is clear that it will not be returned. During the Second World War, Italy saw that France was beaten by the Germans. It wanted to be cheap, but was beaten back. They don’t think about the collections of the Louvre. Not only did Hitler parade at the Arc de Triomphe, but he also removed all the things that could be removed in the Louvre. Only a pair of Assyrian Ramasu patron saints were left because they were too heavy. Law to move away. At that time, the Louvre was full of explosives, and the police could blow up the Louvre at any time.

  Hitler not only wanted to destroy the Louvre, but also to destroy Paris, but this plan was blocked by a German general.

   "This plan is crazy, my head of state." The general said, "Who would have thought of razing Paris to the ground?"

  After the end of World War II, Germany as a defeated country returned 61,000 of the 100,000 collections looted from the Louvre, 45,000 of which were delivered to their owners at the request of the victims or their direct heirs.

  The Russians took the lead in occupying Berlin, but there is no evidence to support the Russians passing the collection taken by Germany from the Louvre.

  ** is very cunning. They may not have shipped the collections of the Louvre to Berlin. The Allied forces will go to fight the Alpine defense line not just for gold.

  Furthermore, the Germans also invaded Russia and robbed a lot of Russian artworks. These things are now hard to find.

  Even if it is a shrunken collection, it takes at least one month to see every treasure in the Louvre, and each treasure only stays for one minute, and one day is not enough.

  If you are rushing to the Mona Lisa, you have to reduce the time in the line.

   has come to the Tuileries, there is no reason not to go to the Louvre.

The Louvre’s large gallery was originally a corridor linking the Tuileries. Now that the palace is gone, only the gallery is left. After buying the tickets and going in, Pomona easily found Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks. , And the strange portrait of Rudolph II.

  Ordinary people paint portraits according to people. He likes to use fruits and vegetables to replace people's facial features. They are very distinctive and difficult to recognize.

  When she saw the painting, she remembered it, and made an appointment to meet with the appraiser.

   But she thought about it for a while, and then put the matter behind her.

  If she is in a hurry to go now, she will appear to want the tattered so much for the greedy goblin to increase the price.

  It is natural for a gentleman to wait for a lady, so the two of them should wait for a while.

  (End of this chapter)