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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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the_legman
2008-04-23 10:23 pm UTC (link)

"It would not surprise me one jot if that were the case, ambassador." He's not entirely sure if he believes it but there's not much he could do if it were a lie so better to play along for now.

He wonders at the raised eyebrow but perhaps the ambassador is not a religious man; it would make sense to avoid attention of that sort in Protestant England. It would be interesting to see what the servants, if they were French too, made of it but that was only an idle thought. "Thank you, Monsieur. Speaking of that, however, would you know if there are still churches here that perform Mass? I doubt I shall be returning to Paris before Sunday and I had heard there had been problems between the clergy and the royals concerning matters such as services." More than problems, Emmeline had written to him about how the English even over there were making proper worship difficult.

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