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

Entry tags:

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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the_legman
2008-04-23 02:11 pm UTC (link)

"Not to worry," He added with a faux-sympathetic tone, "I don't think those across the Atlantic are any threat to you. Besides, anything they read will be nothing but old news to you by the time it gets there." It was why he had to make sure that everything he sent back would still be relevant or at least interesting after such a long journey.

Ferrand looked shocked for a split second as the name registered. He'd heard it often enough, along with the stories attached, in the copy rooms he'd spent the last couple of days haunting. He quickly regained control of his expression though and shifted it so that there was only mild interest showing. "Well, I can't imagine why you'd claim to have that name unless it was truly yours. It also explains a fair bit." What it explained he wasn't going to elaborate on. "But I must say it really is a pleasure to meet you, Mister Fisher." The honorific felt strange on his tongue but he doubted that anything else would do. Besides, he was telling the truth, this man promised to be the first interesting, if not useful, man he'd met all evening.

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social_climber
2008-04-24 08:26 am UTC (link)

Harry doesn't answer for a moment, considering the man, "Does your newspaper pay for your board and lodgings here, Mister Duval?" He asks, before glancing back down at his fingernail, rubbing them against his jacket. "Or do you pay your own way?"

"You can be sure if I found anyone else using my name I wouldn't be very pleased." Harry says with a faint flicker of a grin. "Although I'm surprised you think it's a pleasure. Most who meet me aren't at all keen." Which was true, unless they were clientèle, and some of them weren't often happy to see them, especially if he arrived just as they were heading to meet Sir Gordon-Smyth or Lady Kensington or whatever. Still, all dues had to be paid.

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the_legman
2008-04-24 03:14 pm UTC (link)

"A little of both. To those at home Paris is rather expensive, understandably of course, but other newspapers print my reports too and that covers the rest." Ferrand turns to the man curiously, "Why do you ask?"

He chuckles, "No, I imagine not." A man like Harry Fisher had a reputation like his for a reason, obviously, and most who met him probably owed him favours in one way or another. "I am not most people though and you are a rare breed of man, Mister Fisher, you are a man who will know things. Things that might otherwise be forgotten or, more likely, be hidden away forever." In other words, he was useful. Most of what he knew could or would never be printed but there were other ways such information could be used.

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