Prince Montfort and Burbaski walked up the horseshoe-shaped staircase and finally reached the highest point in the front yard of Fontainebleau Palace.
Standing at the highest point, Prince Montfort turned around and overlooked the front yard under the stairs. He saw a cross road paved with stone bricks and sycamore trees planted on both sides of the road, which perfectly divided the front yard garden into four.
A small garden.
Since it is still around the beginning of spring, the gardens that were devastated by the wind and snow of the previous year have not yet fully regained their vitality, so every garden looks particularly depressed.
However, this kind of depression is not the dilapidated feeling when a building is abandoned, but more like an artistic conception that is difficult to describe in words.
If it is midsummer and early autumn when flowers are blooming, the garden will present a vibrant scene.
Looking at the picturesque scenery under the steps in front of him, Prince Montfort couldn't help but sigh, "Fontainebleau, there are poets who have used their pens to sing your praises, and how many kings have been crazy about you!"
After a brief sigh, Prince Montfort turned to Burbasky and said lightly, "Adjutant Burbasky, where is your emperor now? Please take me there!"
Burbaski pushed open the door of the building behind Prince Montfort, and Prince Montfort was able to enter the interior of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Prince Montfort, who entered the interior of this magnificent building, walked in the corridor under the leadership of Burbasky. On both sides of the corridor were various oil paintings and sculptures, some of which came from the Renaissance era, and some from the
During the Baroque era, there were also pictures that were typical oriental style landscape and pastoral paintings.
In this corridor that is as long as the end, Prince Montfort can almost see the representative works produced by the civilizations of every world and time period that he is familiar with. In other words, the entire world's civilizations seem to be included here.
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This rich historical accumulation is by no means something that can be accumulated overnight. It was created by successive monarchs of the Bourbon family (except Louis XVIII and Orleans), as well as the kings of the Kingdom of Orleans and two generations of Napoleon (Emperor Napoleon and Emperor Napoleon III).
) can only achieve significant results through joint efforts.
Prince Montfort, standing under the ink painting of mountains and rivers, can be sure that the picture in front of him, which is very oriental art style, never existed during the reign of his brother and the Orleans Dynasty. Therefore, this painting can only be renovated by Jérôme Bonaparte.
A painting specially added during the period of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
In order to verify his suspicion, Prince Montfort ordered Burbaski to call an administrator of the Fontainebleau Palace.
After receiving the order, Burbasky quickly summoned a manager of the Fontainebleau Palace. The anxious manager asked Prince Montfort in a low voice what his orders were.
"This painting should have been hung here only in the last ten years, am I right?" Prince Montfort asked the administrator, pointing to the ink painting with a gold frame hanging on the wall.
The manager carefully looked at the ink paintings in front of him, constantly recalling in his mind the artworks that had filled the Palace of Fontainebleau in recent years.
After a while, the administrator responded to Prince Montfort, "Your Highness, this painting was indeed placed here three years ago!
I remember that Controller Mokar came personally to give His Majesty the Emperor’s order and directed us to hang this painting here!”
"I understand! You go ahead and do your work!" Prince Montfort waved his hand towards the administrator and urged the administrator to leave.
The management staff who received permission to leave turned around and left as if they had been granted amnesty. Prince Montfort continued to walk in the corridor of Fontainebleau Palace while admiring the paintings and statues on both sides of the corridor. If he met Prince Montfort's favorite
He would also stop for a moment to see the portrait.
Prince Montfort walked and stopped like this for nearly twenty minutes, and finally arrived at the throne room of Fontainebleau Palace.
This is a meeting hall restructured from the palaces of French monarchs.
Before the Great Revolution, successive Capetian monarchs lived here.
When the Great Revolution came, because it was located far away from Paris, and Louis XVI did not live here at the beginning of the revolution, it was lucky to escape the crisis of being destroyed by the Parisian people.
After Napoleon became the ruler of the Republic and was crowned Emperor of the Empire, the palace was transformed into the Throne Hall by Napoleon.
Part of the affairs of the First French Empire were held here.
When Prince Montfort entered the throne room, he was greeted by a royal seat made of walnut wood and gilded bronze. Below the royal seat were steps covered with Turkish wool blankets, and under the steps were two
Giant candlestick made of gilded bronze.
Candlesticks stand on the left and right sides of the throne, and each candlestick has twelve candles.
Although it is still daytime, under the illumination of twenty-four candles, there is still a special sense of elegance and luxury near the throne.
"My brother was sitting here summoning his generals!" Prince Montfort pointed to the throne and muttered to Burbaski.
"His Majesty (Jérôme Bonaparte) also told us!" Burbaski replied to Prince Montfort, and then he pointed to the oil painting on one wall of the throne room and said, "That painting
The content is that the late emperor (Emperor Napoleon) summoned the French ministers and generals!"
Only then did Prince Montfort realize that there was an oil painting on the side of the throne room near the window. He walked slowly to the wall and raised his head to look at the oil painting.
The content of the picture is exactly the scene of Emperor Napoleon meeting with the marshals and ministers of the First Empire. Emperor Napoleon is sitting on the throne. Under the steps of the throne are gathered all the essence of the empire, including Talleyrand, Fouche, Soult.
, Lucien Bonaparte et al.
Looking at the painting in front of him, Prince Montfort was convinced that it was a fictional painting.
Because in his memory, Lucien Bonaparte had already broken with his brother after he became emperor, so it was impossible to attend this meeting.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The owner of the oil painting just wanted to draw all Napoleon and the imperial elite, and create a scene of harmonious coexistence of the empire.
Therefore, Prince Montfort can be sure that this painting is either the masterpiece of Louis Philippe or his son Jerome Bonaparte.
Only they will subconsciously defend the First Empire in order to share some glory from the First Empire.
In order to help his son stabilize the empire, Prince Montfort could only praise against his will, "The painting is really good!!"
Burbaski, who knew nothing about history, didn't know that some of the characters in the picture were too inconsistent, so he naturally echoed, "Your Highness, I feel the same way!"
After admiring it for a moment in the throne room, Prince Montfort asked Burbasky again, "Burbasky, we have visited half of the Palace of Fontainebleau, why haven't we seen the emperor yet?"
Burbaski was silent for a moment, and then said to Prince Montfort, "Your Highness, I am not sure where your Majesty is now!
Your Majesty remains at the Palace of Fontainebleau before I go to the train station!"
"Where is Basilio? Didn't he come with the emperor?" Prince Montfort asked again.
As the chief steward of the entire royal family, Basilio must know the emperor's whereabouts.
"Basilio did not come with His Majesty, he was ordered to stay in the Tuileries Palace!!" Burbaschi replied to Prince Montfort, "I am afraid that the entire Fontainebleau Palace knows about His Majesty's whereabouts.
Only Secretary-General Andre von Becciu remains!"
"Andre von Becciux?" Prince Montfort murmured, this name was very unfamiliar to him.
However, since the other party bears the noble surname "Feng", it is very likely that the other party is a nobleman with German ancestry.
Could it be that he is from Württemberg?
Prince Montfort immediately thought whether the other party might be from his "mother's" family.
After all, there are not many great nobles with the surname "Von" in Alsace-Lorraine.
Therefore, Prince Montfort searched hard in his mind for the Württemberg family that might be related to André von Becciu.
However, no matter how much Prince Montfort searched, the famous Württemberg family seemed to have nothing to do with this name.
Prince Montfort had no choice but to ask Burbasky, "Where is this Andre von Becciux from? Why am I not familiar with him?"
Burbaski shook his head and replied to Prince Montfort, "Your Highness, I don't know much about this either!
All I know is that he seems to be from Vienna!"
"Vienna?" Prince Montfort muttered again, and his mind suddenly thought of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who had presided over Radetzky's funeral.
This Andre von Becciu cannot be related to that cardinal!
Prince Montfort subconsciously connected the two.
"Where is the secretary named Becciu now?" Monfort simply asked Burbaski to call Andrei von Becciu in front of him, and he would find out after asking him personally.
"I'm not sure now." Burbaski shook his head and said to Monfort, and then added: "But he should still be in the office at the Palace of Fontainebleau!"
"Office at the Palace of Fontainebleau?" Prince Montfort was stunned for a moment. He clearly remembered that there was no office at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
"His Majesty transformed part of the rooms in the Palace of Fontainebleau into offices, and transferred some of the affairs related to Paris here!" Burbaski replied euphemistically to Prince Montfort.
"Take me to see that Secretary Beiqiu!"
At Prince Montfort's request, Burbaski took Prince Montfort to a room in the backyard of the Palace of Fontainebleau.
The first thing Prince Montfort saw when he entered the room was a hand-drawn map of the Seine Province. This map not only marked the names of streets and buildings in each area of Paris in detail, but also the names of buildings around Paris.
The military insignia of the division level.
This is obviously a military defense map near Paris.