I Am Louis XIV

Louis XIV may never understand the attitude of these kings when facing their children. Don't they love their children? Perhaps this should be attributed to the biased education of the church and medieval scholars on their children. Those gentlemen with white hair and long beards have long forgotten their innocence and simplicity when they were children, and they are not as innocent as their wives, at least because they were born after ten months of pregnancy. Natural emotions, when they write and publish theories, are completely out of their own imagination.

Even after hundreds of years, men still think that children are like animals, only noisy and troublesome, unable to reason, unable to teach, and can only use belts and sticks to keep them quiet and submissive, and this is even more so now, fathers Maybe also pay attention to (rather than take care of) their heirs, that is, sons. For daughters, they almost have only one attitude, indifference and indifference.

In this case, unless the mother country of the princess is in a strong and prosperous moment, and the queen loves her children enough and has a firm temperament, it will be difficult for the princess not only to compete with her father's sisters in the court, or even the "royal wife", and may even Belittled by members of the royal family and nobles, such as Antonia, the former princess of Habsburg, knows that she is still called "ignorant" because her father chose a good husband for her - the lord of a country , young, noble blood, first marriage, as for whether Carlos II is a lunatic, deformed or something else, no one will care.

You must know that in the royal family of Europa, there are not a few princesses who spend the entire flowering period alone because their father is unwilling to give a dowry, or unfortunately there is no suitable match, and finally can only die in a monastery.

If Princess Isabella complained about her father or mother, she would undoubtedly be accused of being ungrateful. Fortunately, she has learned how to remain silent and patient during the years outside the Sintra Palace— ——People always think that children have no memory. They make big mistakes. Children are like rosebuds. If you gently touch them with your fingers, they may only remember the warmth and thoughtfulness, but cannot clearly remember the details. Every time; but if you whip it, every lash leaves a deep scar, and the longer it grows, the more pronounced it is.

Princess Isabella not only remembered her wet nurse—she was fostered in her home, and the wet nurse treated her badly, perhaps out of contempt and hatred for an illegitimate daughter. She said without hesitation that Isabella was a She is a villain, not a princess; the nurse's children also bully her in every possible way-in any case, as the regent's daughter, she has nothing short of material.

But none of these had a profound impact on her when she was five years old.

Her happiness today, even that of Portugal and those people, is built on the grave of a noble and innocent person. She would always wake up from a dream, thinking in cold sweat how Alfonso V looked at her with a complicated expression. His appearance was very vague in Isabella's impression, but recently it became more and more blurred. The clearer it was, Isabella didn't think it was because she later saw a portrait of the former king in the Sintra Palace, because Alfonso VI was handicapped when he was three years old, and it was also because of this disability that he He has mental problems, so this portrait was drawn by the artist with reference to the young Prince Pedro. Perhaps from that day on, Prince Pedro was preparing to enter the Sintra Palace.

People say that Alfonso VI was punished by God or cursed by the devil like Carlos II, but Princess Isabella didn't think so. The hand on top of her head was cold and swollen due to poor blood flow, but it was wiped clean by the person who served him. Because the owner of the palm did not have much strength, the palm was slapped, but That little weight was the best blessing Isabella could have had.

He exchanged the life of the most honorable man for the marriage contract between Portugal and France, and also allowed her to escape from prison. Her nurse had long said that she would be sent to the most remote monastery, where End your life in chanting and penance.

Many times, Princess Isabella wanted to tell the French Crown Prince Louis Little about this matter in letters, but she also knew that their letters had to be reviewed, and sometimes she could even see the letter paper rolled up. Or it turned yellow, which was caused by the spies of Pedro II wiping the letter paper with water to see if there was any ciphertext inside.

Little Louis said in this letter that their wedding is likely to be brought forward—Louis XIV has already obtained the Pope’s amnesty—because in the next few years, Louis XIV may have to drive himself at any time and will not be in Paris. With Versailles, it was impossible to officiate a wedding for them. Although it is not impossible for the crown prince to hold a wedding without the king, this behavior may be interpreted as the king's dissatisfaction with his son's bride. For a foreign crown princess, such rumors will make it difficult for her to move an inch in Versailles .

Therefore, although Princess Isabella has not yet reached the established age for marriage, the wedding must be held around this year's Ascension Day. "After that, there will be several months of triumph and celebration." Little Louis said, Apologies also to the princesses, for these ceremonies combined their wedding with the joy and honor of their latest naval victory over Britain and France, and Louis XIV also intended to ease the tense hearts of the French people a little. Two - He still does not plan to collect excess war taxes from the people this time, but uses royal revenue, war debts, war gains, and compensation to deal with this monstrous expenditure. In this case, his people should continue to be calm as usual Live, farm for him, work, study, and spend every day in an ordinary and happy way.

This description made Princess Isabella feel novel. She was not liked by King Pedro II, and it was impossible for the princess to intervene in the affairs of state—nor could the queen, but the royal wife might stay by the king’s side, making some slander or She can read the news, but she can read history books and newspapers. She knows that whenever a war starts, the king has the right to collect war taxes from the people, and not once or twice, but to watch the progress of the war and collect several times in a row. times is also possible.

Also, the amount of this tax is set by the king.

So after every war, famine and plague will break out, bringing endless death, just like the description in the Bible, the four angels of destruction, war, famine, plague and death always come hand in hand, war is a huge blood-sucking beast A monster that can suck a rich country until its flesh and bones wither.

She was not sure whether what the crown prince Little Louis wrote was true. She tried to ask the maids around her, but they were either ignorant or severely prevented her from continuing to care about these issues-this is the privilege of men, As a princess, future queen, her question was inappropriate. After Versailles has surpassed the Palace of Sintra to become the most fashionable and strict place in Europa, if she is not cautious in her words and deeds, she may have consequences more terrible than death.

Yeah? Princess Isabella didn't think so. She didn't naively think that there would be any romantic love at first sight between her and the crown prince who had never met, but she could see from the letters that the crown prince was at least honest and kind. The tolerant people, and the people of Versailles and Paris, did not have such harsh and critical eyes as they had told her.

Because the Sun King Louis XIV loved his children very much.

Not only his heirs, Crown Prince Louis Jr. and Prince Charles, who has the right to inherit the Spanish throne, he also cared and cared for Princess Elizabeth. This kind of love is different. To put it simply, this kind of love includes expectation and support, just like treating a boy. People talk about it but he doesn't care.

This afterglow also illuminates the people around, from the Duke of Orleans to Henry the son of the Grand Condé, and even extended to the future wife of the son of the prince and the duke, she, the daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the future wife of the French royal family. All new members are grateful for their favor.

It is precisely because of this reason that she is not afraid of the upcoming distant marriage, and even looks forward to it. The crown prince said that in Paris and Versailles, the noble ladies are already preparing to pick up a women's university, not the kind of monastery-style teaching, but a university that teaches philosophy, mathematics and medicine like the previous universities, those who used to be in junior high school Students who have attended a top women's college can choose to continue their studies after graduation, and unmarried women are treated equally with married women. The crown prince even said that if she wanted, she could go to school and receive the teachings of those wise men and elders. In the future, she could be a mentor to noble ladies, educate their children, or be a scholar... God! It was really terrible, Princess Isabella couldn't believe it, how could such a thing happen? !

After reading the letter, she realized why her father summoned her to the study and handed the letter to her himself.

Pedro II was not a benevolent and good man, but he had a clear mind. Really smart people don't follow the crowd like ordinary people. They know that women may be slightly inferior to men in physical strength, but they are not different mentally. Sometimes it is slightly better, but it is just because of various reasons, deliberately pretending not to know, or talking nonsense - Louis XIV of France is willing to treat his daughter leniently, he is of course happy, but also threatened - —Princess Isabella will inevitably prefer France to Portugal in the future, but he is not willing to condescend to emulate the French, apologize to his daughter, and make amends.

Yes, both as a king and as a father.

The kings of Europa learned a lot from Louis XIV, such as the standing army, flintlock guns, artillery, iron armor, and even potatoes, coffee, and corn—but there were a few things they resolutely refused or could not do. Like the Sun King, he would rather open the king's private treasury and mortgage the palace than collect excess taxes from the people, and he can't treat the people in the newly occupied lands and colonies with tolerance. Incidentally, they can't even recognize those black, brown and yellow people. People who don't believe in God are "people" like them; they can't tolerate the existence of heretics, or stop oppressing and monitoring them; The ability to think, what they relied on in the past will collapse without a sound... They don't understand why Louis XIV did this-he was once a person who was willing to support the Duke of Cornwall to return to England and regain the throne- He said that he would never support the thugs who opposed the monarch. Why was he able to plant such hidden dangers?

As for Louis XIV's kindness to women, it is a small problem. More people, not just the kings, just find it weird that boys can grow up, and women are children for a lifetime to them, and they need to be supervised and managed throughout their lives. With such an existence, how can they be asked to do men's work? Isn't it ridiculous?

But Pedro II can also understand that Paris and Versailles, and even the whole of France, may be a paradise for women in the future. Women are also greedy for power, especially the privileges that once belonged to men - he sent this letter to his wife, the daughter of Savoy, the Queen of Portugal, and also to his royal wife, or several noble daughters After seeing them, they were either doubting, cursing, laughing, or thinking it was impossible. The only thing that made no difference was the sudden burst of light in their eyes—at that moment, it was so dazzling fear.

Pedro II finally decided not to think about it. Soon after, Isabella became the French crown princess instead of the Portuguese princess. The French Fleet achieved great results because the people of Catalonia not only expelled the Spaniards on the ground, but also offered their loyalty to Carlos III of France. I do not know when they came to the border between Roussillon and Barcelona. The Duke of Orleans accepted the city keys and maps presented by them as an agent, and the Duke of Luxembourg will serve Carlos III to the Cathedral of San Francisco in Madrid for his coronation.

It is worth mentioning that, in fact, all previous Spanish kings were crowned in the Toledo Cathedral, because although the political center of Spain moved from Toledo to Madrid, the religious center did not move, and it was still in Toledo. Now Toledo and Madrid are like two small courts, and Toledo firmly refuses to recognize Carlos III of France, so Carlos III can only be crowned in Madrid, and the San Francisco Church in Madrid was originally a monastery, but since Louis Fourteen so decided that it will replace the cathedral of Toledo in the future.

Like that Archbishop of Toledo.