Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 912 Mary
"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 his head to look at Mary who had rushed over.

"I thought you would come over with Joan 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, in theory, but I left early." Mary said with an elegant smile. "I've recently developed a good group of people who are able to get the job done right at this time."

"Of course, what's more important is that I pay them the top 10% salary among their peers, so they should also reflect their own value, for example, they can replace my work when I want to rest."

To be honest, Mary is not a very hardworking person. At least from the perspective of historical records, his teachers think he is a relatively smart person, but he rarely has the kind of persistent determination to learn things.

So it is the same to run this gallery now. For most people, such a well-known industry naturally needs to be managed with care, even investing a lifetime of energy.

But to Mary, this thing is just a small property, and she will only take care of it when she is interested. When she is not interested, she naturally does not want to be entangled in common affairs.

After all, as the queen of France, she had come into contact with countless important objects. Compared with those things, even the top-level chain gallery was really just a small toy in his eyes.

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

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

After listening to Mary's arrangement, Liang En nodded approvingly. Although in a world where some supernatural powers exist, a large number of people may not be an advantage, but in this ordinary world, it is indeed an iron law that there is a large number of people with great power.

Especially for Mary, she runs the gallery purely out of interest rather than earning a living, so naturally she doesn't want to waste more time on daily operations in order to maintain her interest.

Because Mary happened to be here now, Liang En simply asked the other party to check the perfume bottle he designed, and then give his opinion.

"Let me see—the design of this perfume bottle is very interesting, and it tends to be more ornate as a whole, but because you adopted the Rococo style, you have diluted the original ornate feeling—"

After receiving the wax model of the palm-sized perfume bottle, Mary carefully observed it. 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 discovering something that she didn't quite accept or understood.

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

As a former queen, Mary has seen countless valuable works of art, and even daily necessities are full of artistic flavor today, and the artistic influence she received in this environment is also close to those of those masters.

So after only a few minutes of observing the wax model, she discovered the foreshadowing that 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 absolutely compatible with the contents inside." Liang En smiled, and then said the design reason.

In the next few minutes, Liang En told Mary about the source of inspiration for this perfume design, and at the same time 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 weird tone. "If that's the case, these frivolous designs are appropriate."

For Mary, this sentence is already her most offensive language, and it is obvious that his illegitimate partners of the royal nobles in the Palace of Versailles are not very cold.

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

Especially for countries with monarchs in Europe, until the early 20th century, these countries still had the system of "canonization of mistresses" by the king.

This mistress is not just a display, but the king selects one of the many lovers to make it public, and grants him an official title, which is equivalent to public recognition.

The mistress of the French king not only has a room that is more spacious than the queen's room, but is also given the title of nobility, territory, salary and annuity.The main task of the queen is to give birth to children and put on a facade.

For example, the famous Petit Trianon Palace has been publicized as one of the evidences of Queen Mary's extravagance, but in fact this palace was ordered by Louis XV for his long-term mistress Mrs. Pompadour in 1762. Built in 1768.

But Madame de Pompadour died four years before it was built, so it later belonged to her successor, the Countess du Belle until 1774.

That year, 20-year-old Louis XVI gave the castle and its surrounding gardens to his 19-year-old queen Marie Antoinette after he ascended the throne, and this was the source of the later rumors.This also shows that the treatment of mistresses of the French king is indeed high.

It is also because of this castle that Mary bears the infamy of extravagance. Although it is true that she spends money lavishly and inappropriately, the infamy created out of thin air is still somewhat wronged.

In addition, another mistress of Louis XV, Mrs. Du Barry, was also fresh in Mary's memory. The two met for the first time at a family dinner held in the castle of Ramiet and had a very tense fight.
Marie Antoinette hated Madame du Barry's behavior, and the confrontation between the two lasted for quite a while.In flagrant defiance of court protocol, Marie Antoinette refused to speak to Madame du Barry.

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

This dialogue broke the norms of royal etiquette, but also showed Marie's displeasure, because Du Barry was not allowed to talk to Marie Antoinette on that occasion.

So when Mary heard the origin of the perfume, she thought of her unpleasant past with Madame Du Barry, so even though it had been hundreds of years, Mary was still a little sensitive to those women in the Palace of Versailles.

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

(End of this chapter)