The King Without a Kingdom
“Ah! You have noticed, Archambaud, this is one of my favourite sentiments. Yes! Yes, in the midst of all setbacks, of all sorrows, of all disappointments, we are always graced with some good that comes to comfort us. One simply needs to be able to appreciate it. God is only waiting for our gratitude to better prove his leniency.
You see, after a calamitous summer for France, and most disappointing, I confess, for my embassy, look how we are favoured by the season and the beautiful weather we hav...e to continue our journey! It is an encouragement from the heavens.
I feared, after the rains we had in Berry, that we would come into a spell of bad weather, gusts of wind and the cold as we moved further north. And I was preparing to shut myself away in my palanquin, wrap myself up in furs and sustain us with mulled wine. And yet it is quite the opposite; the air has warmed, the sun is shining, and this December is like a spring. We sometimes experience this in Provence; but I didn’t expect such light, which brightens the countryside, such warmth that the horses sweat under their covers, to greet our entrance into Champagne.MoreLess
You see, after a calamitous summer for France, and most disappointing, I confess, for my embassy, look how we are favoured by the season and the beautiful weather we hav...e to continue our journey! It is an encouragement from the heavens.
I feared, after the rains we had in Berry, that we would come into a spell of bad weather, gusts of wind and the cold as we moved further north. And I was preparing to shut myself away in my palanquin, wrap myself up in furs and sustain us with mulled wine. And yet it is quite the opposite; the air has warmed, the sun is shining, and this December is like a spring. We sometimes experience this in Provence; but I didn’t expect such light, which brightens the countryside, such warmth that the horses sweat under their covers, to greet our entrance into Champagne.MoreLess
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