After making the decision, Mirabeau stood up, drank down the sweet tea, and then said to An Ning: "Let's go, there will be something to eat when we get to the club, so I won't have lunch."
An Ning: "You have forgotten that I am a civilian. Civilians only have two meals a day, breakfast and dinner."
In fact, An Ning is used to three meals a day, but his body is a native of this time and space, so he is used to two meals a day.
Mirabeau: "I eat almost twice a day, but I have to eat something to fill my stomach in the afternoon, otherwise I will be hungry at night. Okay, let's go, Mrs. Evans, I won't be back until tonight."
The old lady nodded.
Fanny asked: "Want me to help hire a carriage?"
"No, we can just stop one on the street." Mirabeau waved his hand, "Just go back to the Duke's house and wait."
Fanny nodded, then pressed her hands on the maid's skirt and bowed to An Ning: "Then I will go home first. I hope Master you can meet Mr. Robespierre smoothly."
"Well, be careful on the way back." An Ning waved her hand.
Mirabeau: "Did you come here on foot?"
"Yes, after all, I live only one block from you, so I didn't know it was so close." An Ning responded.
"But to go to Club de Bretagne, you have to take a car. After all, you have to cross two and a half districts of Paris."
Mirabeau said so.
At this time, the city of Paris was already quite large, only slightly smaller than the later Greater Paris.
Later, France decided to build a fortress-like wall around Paris to surround the entire city. The outline of this wall almost coincided with the outline of modern Paris.
It can only be said that France at this time already had the foundation for a civil revolution: there was a large number of citizens.
The great city of Paris and its people were the basis for everything that followed.
Theoretically speaking, there were only two cities in modern Europe that had the basis for civil revolution, one was Paris and the other was London. However, Britain had become bourgeois after the Glorious Revolution, so the Great Revolution eventually broke out in France.
As soon as Mirabeau went out, he immediately stopped a carriage.
An Ning rode a carriage across the city of Paris.
He lay on the car window, looking out at the busy streets of Paris, and once again lamented the prosperity of this city.
Mirabeau looked at An Ning's expression and said next to him: "You can't see such a scene in your hometown, right? The most in Paris are cafes, pubs and tennis courts. In the afternoon, there are salons everywhere, and the wives of the little bourgeois
Impersonating ladies in the salon."
An Ning: "Gentlemen, don't you attend the salon?"
"Gentlemen have to work, as clerks, lawyers, doctors, engineers." Mirabeau said and laughed at himself, "Just like me, a pen writer supported by the Duke can often attend ladies' salons."
An Ning joked: "I guess these salons have also provided you with a lot of writing inspiration."
"No, I'm afraid you don't know that the wives I wrote about the queen's love affairs were first told to me by the ladies. For example, the queen's Swedish lover was also rumored by the ladies at first, and then it spread to my ears.
of."
An Ning: "Then you let the whole Paris know. Did the Swede restrain himself afterwards?"
"Not at all. In fact, it is basically an open matter for noble wives to have lovers. Not having one or two lovers would make people feel abnormal. Correspondingly, husbands also have mistresses, but our King is a little special..."
An Ning joked: "He prefers to play with locks?"
"Yes. So he doesn't have a mistress, which is unique among the Paris aristocracy."
An Ning raised his eyebrows, suddenly thought of something, and asked: "The Duke of Orleans—I mean, does Mr. Tolestell also have a mistress?"
"Of course, the Duke's wife also has a lover, but the Duke's wife's lover is a beauty dressed in men's clothing, Madam Oscar, the colonel of the Guards that guards the palace."
An Ning almost burst into tears. Ms. Oscar is still an officer of the palace guard. What kind of plot is this from "The Rose of Versailles"?
But in The Rose of Versailles, Oscar and Queen Mary have sex with lilies.
Could it be that Oscar, the cross-dressing beauty, would eventually die in the battle at the main gate of the Bastille like in the comics?
What kind of messy world have I traveled to?
Mirabeau: "Okay, we're here."
An Ning got out of the car and looked at the building in front of him: "Church?"
"The monastery and the chapel were rented to the Bretons, so they became a gathering place." Mirabeau shrugged, "In places like Paris, the church generally has no land, so it can only open the place to donations.
The believers have used it as a public activity venue, and many clubs have opened in the monastery.”
An Ning said "Oh".
Mirabeau led him towards the main building of the monastery.
As soon as you enter, you feel like you have entered a cafe. Gentlemen gather around the table in groups of three and five, discussing loudly.
An Ning heard a young gentleman at the table next to the door say loudly: "It would be a mistake to ally with Austria! We should ally with Britain!"
"Are you kidding me? Have you forgotten the Hundred Years' War? The Maiden of Orleans will cry in heaven!" another gentleman retorted loudly.
But the young gentleman was unmoved: "But look at the current situation! More than 70% of our colonial trade has been cut off by the British. The supply of tobacco, chocolate and coffee in Paris is in short supply, and even sugar has become extremely expensive!
But what influence does Austria have? Austria doesn’t have a single colony, so it’s not affected at all!”
An Ning couldn't help but interjected: "Although it seems so, isn't the essential reason caused by our navy not having fought against the Royal Navy?"
The gentlemen who were discussing loudly turned their heads immediately and looked at An Ning in confusion.
"Who are you?" the young man who spoke asked doubtfully.
Anning: "Andy Frost, from Caen."
As soon as he finished speaking, the gentleman who had just said that he had a feud with the British said loudly: "Oh! I have heard of you. Yesterday, you defeated that Reginald man! Well done, has that Reginald always looked down on you?
People with noble titles often come to provoke us."
The young gentleman who was glaring at An Ning aggressively just now immediately changed his expression to a friendly one: "Well done! That guy provoked me last time in the salon, saying that my father was just the secretary of the noble lord. Damn it.
, my dad is obviously the town prosecutor!"
An Ning: "From Reginald's point of view, it probably doesn't matter what position civilians have. They are all civilians anyway."
"Even among the nobility, there are very few fools like this." Another gentleman said disdainfully, "I discovered a pattern. The more nobles in the countryside, the more likely they are to be fools like this. Many of the big nobles in the city are like this.
He opened his arms to the common people, like the Duke of Orleans."
At this time, Mirabeau intervened: "Yes, there are many people among the enlightened nobles who agree with Rousseau and Montesquieu. This is a trend. Reginald, a country nobleman, cannot keep up with the times. I just went
Having said hello to the others, allow me to introduce you to Mr. Frost. This is Georges Jacques Danton from Troyes."
An Ning looked at the young man suspiciously.
This guy turned out to be Dandong, one of the giants of the Jacobin Club. An Ning's impression of Dandong still maintained the image he had in later movies and TV series. He was elegant, wearing a white wig, and looked bookish.
The result turned out to be such a young fool!
He looks younger than twenty!
Wait a moment, An Ning vaguely remembered that Dandong was only in his early thirties when he was sent to the guillotine, so shouldn't he be a young boy now?
So their images and impressions in later generations are different, not because the world line is wrong, but because I came early?
Dandong stretched out his hand: "Nice to meet you! I heard that you are also a war hero who received the Legion Service Medal?"
An Ning held Dandong's hand: "Indeed, but the medal has not been issued to me yet. Considering that my only achievement in the war was to rescue the eldest daughter of Duke Tollestaire, maybe General Carnegie's application for the medal will be
Dismissed."
Dandong: "No, now the war has made everyone's life worse. Your Majesty needs something to distract everyone. They will give you a medal. But you just said that the current bad situation is mainly because of the navy.
Can't beat the Royal Navy..."
An Ning: "Isn't it?"
"Of course not! Not long ago, when the North American colonies were fighting for independence, the navy won the battle, so we could send the Marquis de Lafayette to North America to beat up Cornwallis's British army!"
An Ning: "Although the navy won during the North American War of Independence, Britain, with its naval tradition, was not so easy to defeat. A few years later, it licked its wounds and defeated our fleet once again. It wanted to defeat the navy with its long history.
In traditional Britain, we must adopt technological innovations, such as installing steam engines on warships, building coal-burning ships, or using new breech-loading artillery..."
An Ning is also a veteran martial artist, and when he talks about these things, he will start talking endlessly.
However, several gentlemen seemed to have heard a joke and laughed together.
Dandong also patted An Ning on the shoulder: "It's a shame you can think of it. Using coal to propel the ship, are you going to use a steam engine to row the oars?"
An Ning: "You can install a paddle wheel for paddling..."
"Oh my God, a paddle wheel! He wants to put a wheel on the boat!"
Another gentleman shook his head and said: "Breech-loading cannons will never appear because the problem of sealing the barrel cannot be solved. When firing, most of the gunpowder will leak from the back instead of spraying out from the muzzle."
"The airtight seal of the flintlock gun is bad enough. I often hear that someone got his cheek burned when he fired it. He actually wanted to use it on a cannon!"
The gentlemen all commented on An Ning's idea, and seemed to think it was fanciful.
Mirabeau also looked at An Ning with a smile, and said to An Ning with his mouth: "Entertaining everyone is a good way to integrate into the new group."
It seems that Mirabeau thought that An Ning deliberately made violent remarks to make everyone laugh.
At this moment, a voice joined the conversation: "What are you laughing at? No one knows what the future will be like. Since you can believe that nobles will one day be equal to common people, why can't you believe in coal-fired sailing ships and breech-loading ammunition?"
Artillery? In my opinion, these are easier to realize than the ideal of equality for everyone!"
Everyone turned to look at the speaker.
An Ning looked at this person carefully: he was probably in his early twenties, but he was not as slovenly as Dandong. He wore a green coat and a wig on his head meticulously.
He wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, but even those glasses could not hide the heavy dark circles under his eyes.
Danton obviously knew the newcomer: "Come on, Maximilian, when did you become an engineer playing with steam engines again?"
An Ning realized that the young man with a serious expression in front of him was the famous "Incorruptible", the "Roman" Maximilian Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre.