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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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Re: repost! apologies!

social_climber
2008-04-19 09:57 pm UTC (link)

Harry smiles, "Even if you aren't, free champagne and wine are not to be quickly turned down Especially when they come from the cellars of a man who has no use but to share them." Which was true enough. What was the French ambassador meant to do with a fully-stocked wine-cellar, paid for with the confiscated funds of beheaded aristocrats? He could probably get through a bottle a day, at most. It was a waste, a real waste, especially when those bottles could easy be sold to more appreciative owners on the black market. "And I understand these are some of the best wines available, but I must admit all wine is the same to me."

He laugh at the word gentlemen, but not impolitely. "I would not call myself genteel, miss. But English yes, although I hope that won't make you think of me any less?" He asks, before taking a small sip from his own glass. "The artistic eye, miss? You are an artist? May I ask what sort?"

My turn to apologise. Sorry ><''

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