Chapter 50 Amber

I don't know the origin of this prince. It is said that his ancestor was an Italian prince in the Middle Ages.What is the name of the ancestor?Where is it enfeoffed in Italy?How will they reproduce in exile in the future?When and where was the last throne?What title does his father have if he is called a prince?These questions are completely unknown. I only know that the gardening shop he opened near the Louvre in Paris is indeed named after the prince, and all the items sold in the gardening shop are decorated with the prince's logo, and the prices are quite high.In the treasured land near the Louvre, his gardening shop occupies three large frontages, quietly managing unpopular gardening. The significance of exhibitions is more than sales, and it is difficult to support it without sufficient financial strength.

I was at his estate the other day in Tours.The manor occupies a vast area and is well-renovated. The castle is comfortable and exquisite, with elegant taste, and there are a large number of family portraits and photos, and all of this is by no means for us to see. He was not there when we went.From this, it can be judged that his aristocratic blood is credible, and it is not a fraudulent deception. He himself made a good impression on me.Not handsome, but effortless and personable.French is his mother tongue, I can't understand it, but his English is pure and natural, simple and appropriate.The rarest thing about his conversation is that he does not have the slightest affectation, from which it can be deduced that he has indeed received a good early education.

His form of existence is very representative in Paris. Maybe it really is a divine vein, a dragon species, but the dragon sees the beginning but does not see the end, and it is completely unclear about the specific source.There must be a genealogy of lineage, but he is unwilling to show it, and it is not convenient for others to inquire.Mysteriously keeping a considerable family property and name, living on his own.He is not very old, but there is no need for promotion and no reason for demotion, so he has nothing to do and lives in vain.Gardening and so on, a kind of self-comforting statement, a kind of talk in the circle of friends, that's all.

The French Revolution had a shock to the aristocracy, but most of the European-style shocks were not eliminated, but shelved.Shelving is the relaxation of the veins, and the relaxation is the loss of authority.Therefore, in Paris, there are many lazy, mysterious and mysterious courtyards, where there are some erratic figures who have wealth but do not know how much, and who have background but do not know the truth. Their identities and backgrounds should not be sorted out one by one.If it is sorted out, the thickness of Paris and the breadth of France will be lost, as well as the precipitation of history and the depth of time. What a pity that would be.

Culture is like amber from a long time ago, which is crystal clear but not completely transparent.A certain sinking color and accumulation of yin, that is, a certain degree of turbidity, are its character.Extremely speaking, if it is completely transparent, there will be no color and pattern, and without color pattern, there will be no starting point for culture.Therefore, the culture of a city is also related to the impermeability of the city. This kind of thinking may be different from the thinking of many cultural people. They always spend a lot of effort to detect other people's affairs, thinking that this is the tracking, surveillance and criticism of culture.Of course, that is also a kind of culture, but it belongs to another level. It belongs to the old women who sit on the haystack at the entrance of the village and bite their ears to tell the news of their neighbors. .

In fact, even the cultural levels of books and newspapers are also divided according to this.