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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 3, 2009 23:23:41 GMT -5
*He grinned bashfully.*
"It's a perfect excuse to avoid the persistent Appolonia."
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 3, 2009 23:29:50 GMT -5
"Appol- the lovely girl I coaxed you away from at that party?" George grinned at the faint blush of red rising in Nicki's cheeks as he turned down a side street, strolling as though he had not a care in the world. "I promise to take you somewhere where she'll never find you. Swear on my great-aunt's dubious virtue! Shall we make rescuing a habit of mine?"
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 3, 2009 23:31:04 GMT -5
"Am I really such a damsel in distress?" *He asked dryly.*
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 3, 2009 23:33:20 GMT -5
George gave him a critical look. "Nope," he said cheerfully, after a minute. "Though your sparkling blue eyes did throw me for a minute. Oh, and the dismal stiff way you shook hand after hand after polite condolence, that made me feel for you."
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 3, 2009 23:37:35 GMT -5
"You know sometimes funeral traditions don't make any sense. The last thing the family wants to do is stand by the casket and pretend to like people who are pretending to like them."
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 3, 2009 23:39:24 GMT -5
George shrugged. He hadn't been to many funerals, himself. "I still say you should have gone by that party."
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 3, 2009 23:46:30 GMT -5
"Close friends are coming by for an ash-scattering... gathering of some sort in a few days. Mostly comrades from the revolutions who will probably go into the wine shop they used as a makeshift bullet factory and secret base at the time and pour one out, which is how he would want it."
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 4, 2009 8:38:30 GMT -5
"...Revolutions?"
George was, after all, from the 1500s.
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 4, 2009 11:38:42 GMT -5
"In 1789 the French monarchy will be overthrown and the major figureheads beheaded. France will continue to be fraught with coups and uprisings, which become a sort of historical joke. Two of them were led by my father, one of which I fought in."
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 5, 2009 15:39:43 GMT -5
George's jaw dropped. "The monarchy is overthrown? The - the king? Beheaded?" He should not be so surprised, not when queens were so easily toppled. Had he not spent the last ten years of his life trying to do such a thing? But to imagine anyone who could lay the axe at the king's throat, or who dared to plot to dispose of him... well, that was what treason was, was it not? George supposed, should the common people riot, get worked up... he shuddered to think. Not only for the king- who could be damned to hell, for all he cared- but for the nobles. It might have been nice, in retrospect, for someone to take the mad king down, but an uprising would not limit itself to that. Oh! Now he knew what Nicolas had meant when he called himself a revolutionary.
George's head tilted. "You were against the monarchy, or for it?" And, "Is there a king now? I bet England, Spain, all of Europe would not want a France without a king." Too dangerous for the others kings and queens, not to have one.
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 5, 2009 20:24:35 GMT -5
"Due to a complicated set of circumstances the monarchy in place at the second revolution my father spearheaded happened to be the same queen who had been previously overthrown in the original 1789 revolution. Her King was Richard III. After the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, people got it into their heads that if the government was rotten, they had the right to fix it by force. So we did."
*He paused.*
"In short, Kings are becoming obsolete. Countries are too large and populaces too self-aware to accept absolutism."
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Post by George Boleyn on Jul 10, 2009 5:04:09 GMT -5
George snorted, one thing in particular catching his attention. "Never tell me the Americas revolted." America was just a collection of colonies and tobacco-ground, was it not? Of course, that had been during his time, many years ago. George had no particular interest in the colonies, but the idea of them revolting against England- against particular English masters that he knew- made him grin.
Kings becoming obsolete meant courts becoming obsolete. George was briefly concerned for his own place in the lack of, as Nicolas put it, absolutism.
"Very impressive, this revolution of yours. So now France is, what? A republic? No kings, hmm... whoever blesses the babes and filches away the married lasses?" The corner of his mouth quirked up wryly.
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Post by Nicolas d'Enjolras on Jul 30, 2009 19:24:40 GMT -5
"Married lasses are filchable by one and all, if they are of a disposition to be filched; as for blessing of babes, I've no idea. Priests?"
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