The Happy Life of a Duchess

The warm-up for the autumn social season is basically in place.

Adele has also gone to a lot of private balls, large and small.

The Duke's father has already selected and paid for the public balls she will attend, and there are not many arranged, a total of three.

In addition, there are a few more important and important private dances that must be attended by the two of them together, and the others can decide whether to participate or not depending on the situation.

I also want to see if there are any new invitations in the future. If there is no accident, Mrs. Stan will stay in Paris to participate in this season's social interaction.

With Mrs. Stan taking her to socialize, she also hopes to let her enter the life of a single lady this morning, which is different from the past.

Naturally, the Duval family didn't have anyone of a higher seniority who was suitable to take her acquaintance in Paris. On their side, Mrs. Stan just happened to be invited to help, so they just got busy.

Compared with those of the same age, there are also Mrs. Mariana Onley.

However, this sister Adele is just newly married and has been married for several years. I heard that she is busy with the issue of the next generation of heirs recently——

Cousin is busy recuperating and pregnant now, and Adele is too embarrassed to bother her.

Besides, she has just been married for less than two years. In terms of experience, she is definitely not as experienced as Mrs. Stan, especially since Adele will have to deal with circles that she is relatively unfamiliar with in the future.

Just like that, Adele seemed to be busy, and the time for the essay contest to announce the results was right past.

In order to ensure that the popularity of the paper solicitation can reach the highest level, they even published a few additional issues while ensuring the quality. Of course, the additional issues are thinner than normal, but readers are still very active in ordering, these are to ensure Can have enough publicity.

After the results of the ninth period come out, they will continue to return to the original monthly period.

Moreover, they added the publication with the intention of making predictions for the autumn social season. Naturally, it is impossible to invite members of the salon so frequently during the social season to gather regularly week after week.

Adele and Leo, as people who basically followed up every step, were not that surprised by the result.

As far as Adele herself is concerned, when she was selecting articles, she already knew which ones the final winners should come from. But basically the taste and judgment of reading the article are all there, and the result is also in her expectation.

But she didn't know that her thinking was based on modern times, which was different from some of the current mainstream people.

For the results of the overall orientation, everyone basically agrees——

Those who don't recognize it probably don't understand poetry, but this does not prevent them from following suit and recognizing it.

As the winner, the winner is Mr. Nerval, who has adopted a new pseudonym but has been pulled out of his vest by Hugo himself and Musset himself. His real identity is already famous and has regular fans.

Although it is a little surprising that a literary giant will end up participating in this kind of competition, it is a matter of course for many people to win awards for famous poets, even if they cannot understand or read excellent places. , It does not prevent them from following the tone of critics or everyone to praise his "deserving of the name".

But there is something special about women.

Because the winner is a female writer who narrates a "realistic love tragedy that only women like to read" in a feminine tone.

This is an author who can be seen as a female writer at a glance.

The evaluations given by Mr. Hugo and Mr. Musset are relatively neutral, and they have no special praise for her, but they recognize the suitability of the content of the romance novel to the given topic and the reality hidden in it.

Mr. Hugo liked the real and delicate pictures and very realistic stories written by it very much, but he was not very interested in the softness of its narrative technique and the digging of details. The reality is that the work is discussed from the big picture, but she wrote such a lingering love story, which is what he thinks is insufficient.

Unlike the two men, Mrs. Dupont's pseudonym is George Sand. As an outstanding female writer who dares to write and do, even dare to write articles about current situation, she personally likes this story very much.

In fact, among the four articles in this section, the one she likes is written by this "anonymous" female writer, and the other very promising article is from the female writer who she debunked as a female writer. The author who wrote the article in a male tone concealed his identity and used a male pen name.

Adele originally thought that the result would be between these two people, but she initially estimated that it should be another author who used a male pseudonym, although she personally voted for the anonymous lady .

Unexpectedly, in the readers' votes, it was amazing that female readers voted for anonymous authors, while most male readers voted for the female author with a male pseudonym.

These two people are both writing novels, it’s not like there is a poem that “sees people’s wisdom” in the whole book—but there will not be many voices of doubts from big bosses, and novels are relatively easier to be accepted by readers , the threshold is relatively lower, and some readers who are not very literate can also understand the story by listening. Of course, there are cases where excellent works are performed into operas.

Two love affairs described by the anonymous lady.

One pair is a gentleman from a high society who fell in love with and chased after a very beautiful commoner lady, but finally listened to his parents' ideas and abandoned her. He chose the noble lady who could bring him a lot of money. Miss Meimin was forced to become his lover because she lost her virginity, and finally became a courtesan who received several men except this man.

But this commoner lady who is as good-looking as she is thoughtful is not ashamed of it. She boldly stated that this aristocratic man is sorry for her, and she "will eventually dominate her own body", and said that "women should not embarrassing women”—

The other pair is a pious and excellent noble lady who once retreated in the monastery.

But this young lady was tortured because of her unsatisfactory marriage. She could write poems and sing, she was talented, delicate and feminine, but she was always pointed out as unfortunate, so that she was forced to accept such a reputation , shed tears all day long, and knelt and prayed in front of the statue of the Virgin for several hours every day.

In the end, she managed to get married, but her husband was one of the lovers of the civilian courtesan before her. She thought she had found love, but all her confidence and courage were destroyed again.

The two had a very interesting conversation near the end.

It's not easy for this noble lady to find her lover. The two people are obviously in an opposite relationship, but surprisingly, there is no tension as imagined——

"...They are all courtesans. Women in high society can find lovers, why can't I?"

"I know I am not of a nobler blood than those noble ladies, yet see, as those ladies do, I confess as devoutly before God, and worship as faithfully, as all the bishops advise you to go Things to do……"

"If you say that I don't have a lot of jewelry, there are always men who are willing to spend money for me... But admit it, women have no right to acquire property, even those noble ladies only dare to do whatever they want after they become widows." The rich widows are just playing around with the men in another way."

Hearing these words, the poor noble lady wiped her tears, probably knowing that she could not win back her husband's heart through this lover.

However, not long after the courtesan lady said these words, the noble lady's husband suddenly died of a sudden illness.

Miss Noble, who used to be a pious believer, suddenly mastered a large amount of wealth, and she only has a very delicate daughter. Everyone knows that if she remarries, she can control a large amount of wealth. Of course, her daughter is too young to When the marriage is calculated by someone.

She sent her daughter to a monastery, and lived a solitary life by herself, just as she had experienced as a child.

This way of thinking seems to be very clear.

This should be an article depicting a poor and hateful commoner lady who becomes a courtesan, a female role that men sympathize with and ladies hate.

As for the noble lady who seems to have quite a lot of space, it should be the unfortunate lady bound by reality who is set off very pitifully and not free, to win the sympathy of the ladies and the praise of her loyal nun character from the gentlemen of.

Just when everyone thought this was the result, everyone suddenly saw the ending——

The aristocratic lady became the "rich widow" in the mouth of the courtesan lady.

She has had many lovers, rich and poor.

These people are basically around her for her large sum of money. She seems to know this, but she doesn't seem to know it.

But she is much happier than when she had a husband or when she was not married.

This ending simply stunned everyone.

But the story stopped at this rather imaginative place, and everyone speculated about the mood of the noble lady, as well as the thoughts of the commoner lady who witnessed all this.

But for men, this is definitely not a pleasing story, even if all the details are very true.

Since its publication, it has been very controversial.

Those who like it like it, and those who don't like it criticize it from many angles.

Adele is not yet clear how the outside world is fermenting this.

In the past two days, she has been busy picking out her jewelry.

Before the public dance, she needs to make some preparations for the whole autumn social season. After the social season, there are basically various holidays, and her marriage.

This time was probably the last big jewelry purchase and order before she got married. She received a batch of very good turquoise jewelry, which made her busy with sorting and registering new jewelry for many days.

The blue-green color of turquoise has a natural warmth and softness. Unlike other gemstones such as emeralds, turquoise is not clear, but its expressiveness is not inferior to any other gemstones. It is very eye-catching but not too eye-catching. A kind of eyeball, which is not very picky but also makes the wearer look more beautiful and elegant.

Adele didn't have a particular preference for it before, but after seeing this set of jewelry, she immediately fell in love with it.

This turquoise jewelry set uses the popular gold and silver inlay technique, and the design adopts the ancient Greek style. It is a necklace, earrings, bracelet, and ring set other than the crown.

It is full of traditional ancient Greek elements such as laurel wreaths, dangling ribbons and true love knots. It can be matched with some chic skirts to participate in masquerade or mask balls, which are not very formal but very innovative occasions. If it is used as a big formal dance, it is also possible, and it is more versatile in function.

"Miss, you have a visitor..."

When Mary came to pass the message, she looked a little weird.