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Léon Belmont (ex_the_ambas216) wrote in toujoursliberer,
@ 2008-03-28 07:54:00

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ambassadors_ball, leon_belmont

An Invitation to the French Ambassador's Ball
Subject: The Ambassadors Ball
Where: The French Embassy
Who: Léon Belmont, the French Ambassador to the English court
Warnings: none as yet
Open to: All (all players may attend either as invited guests of the ambassador, as servants or guests of those invited, as staff, or as gate-crashers.)

The ballroom of the Embassy was already growing busy, and when Citizen Belmont paused for a moment besides one of the large windows, he could see yet more carriages pulling up outside, wreathed in the mist blowing in from the river.

The quartet had been playing now for a good half an hour, new French tunes as well as those the English favoured. His staff was busy handing out good French wine, and then refilling those glasses when they were drained.

It was going to be a good evening, and not only in the eyes of the party-goers. With some of England’s most prominent aristos on the guest list, and some than some newly arrived French nationals, tonight would be a night of information gathering, of sizing up the opposition, and perhaps even ensuring some of those French escapees were returned to face justice.

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social_climber
2008-04-23 08:17 am UTC (link)

"Perhaps you're right." He agrees, thinking a moment longer on the subject silently, before letting the matter drop. He doubted it, really, that all these people here were, or could be, the Ambassador's allies. Too many of them had a grudge with the new French state to make that possible.

Harry smiles slightly, "Perhaps not, despite what the newspapers might wish us be believe." Harry agrees, personally doubting that Robespierre was the cause of the Revolution not matter that was rumoured in England. "Perhaps not, but perhaps they would have been unhappy in a new life." He paused, looked her over again, "If you were a man, would you be perusing the matter as you are now? Or if you were a woman born into my class, would you be?"

"Often money and alcohol hide just the same flaw." He points out, declining the glass that the servant offered him. "False intelligence and rehearsed wit have the same effect. Momentarily popularity." He shrugs in answer to the rest of his glass, "Not that he must hide it, Miss, but that he must have the right sort of intelligence. It is no good to me and my kin to know the names of every Emperor if you don't know the quickest way to get yourself out of a fight."

"I find it hard to believe that there was no younger man who would have happily married you, with or without the dowry. Why did your mother not pick another suitor?"

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