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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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widow_newbury
2008-04-20 08:32 am UTC (link)

Adelaide had lost her last husband back in France and so she knew the woman's pain, but at the same time did not. The younger girl had the help of a broken mind, allowing her to escape to a fantasy world where she was still with her beloved husband. However now she was in reality and it was obvious to her that she had done something to upset Elisamarie.

"My apologizes," she said softly, a hint of fear in her once vacant eyes. It wasn't clear what exactly she had suddenly become afraid of, but the feeling was not uncommon for Adelaide.

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	ascesis_ira 2008-04-20 08:41 am UTC (link)
	Elisamarie frowned. She had not meant to upset the girl, the memories were painful but they had at least a happy ending. He had been guillotined after all for his crimes. "There is no need to apologize, Madam. Nor to be upset. It was a long time ago now and I have new work to keep myself occupied." She smiled slightly, the first in a long time. (Replies frozen) (Parent) (Thread)

	widow_newbury 2008-04-20 08:53 am UTC (link)
	"Ah, yes. That is the secret to keeping ones self content after tragedy, isn't it?" Adelaide said. Although she was certainly not speaking from experience, since after the death of each of her husbands she did little to keep herself occupied. Instead she allowed herself to be consumed by her grief to the point of near insanity. (Replies frozen) (Parent) (Thread)

	ascesis_ira 2008-04-20 09:04 am UTC (link)
	"I would believe so, yes." Elisamarie agreed. "Work and faith." Her faith had been all she had had to console herself during those terrible weeks, and then months, after the event. But then had come the revolution and she had been filled with the a new passion for a new work - destroying the family of her former employer as he had destroyed her. (Replies frozen) (Parent) (Thread)

widow_newbury
2008-04-20 05:54 pm UTC (link)

Adelaide nodded in agreement, although she wouldn't know from experience. She had very little faith left in anything and she had certainly never worked a day in her life. She didn't say anything, just took herself another flute of champagne before glancing around. She was certainly past the limit her nurse had set. But when she didn't see the hawk-like woman she took a sip and smiled. "And perhaps some good champagne always helps."

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	ascesis_ira 2008-04-20 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, I am sure, Madam." Elisamarie agreed although she did not touch the stuff herself. As long as she could remember champagne had been a drink reserved only for Aristocrats and she did not feel like closing the social gap by drinking what they did. (Replies frozen) (Parent)

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