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Post by The Viceroy (AdminM) on Feb 23, 2015 21:44:41 GMT
As the warm Spanish sun heated the air in Madrid, a young maiden found the body. Stripped almost naked, reeking of putrid alcohol, she can be forgiven for mistaking him for some homeless drunkard. After the Captain of the Guard was alerted, it seemed the man was a noble. A very important noble in fact, he was Remy Catillon, the French Ambassador to the Court of the King.
Charles opts to fly the flag over his palace at half mast in the wake of this tragedy. However, there will undoubtedly be many in the King's court celebrating this particular death. Surely the ambassador's demise is analogous to the future of the Sun King if he continues on his present course.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2015 12:02:19 GMT
Nicolas Brûlart, Marquis de Sillery, son of the esteemed and much loved ambassador to Spain of several decades prior, is sent to Madrid in order to head a new French delegation. He expects to receive an audience with the Foreign Minister of Spain (if they even have one), to seek redress for the affront Spain has seen fit to insult the Sun King with in the years prior. Accompanying the Marquis are representatives of Pelletier's new and fangled financial institution.
The French delegation will edify the Spanish regarding matters concerning the succession of Charles II, his alleged success in producing an heir, and Spain's future economic cooperation with France.
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Post by The Viceroy (AdminM) on Feb 25, 2015 12:57:20 GMT
Charles and Maria Luisa (Marie Louise, to use her French name) express their deepest regrets at this tragedy. They vow that the next ambassador will receive twice the protection usually afforded by the Crown.
The Spanish court remains hostile to the French offers of economic cooperation, their finances are in the competent hands of Italians and they are still wary of the French since they attempted to occupy Spanish Netherlands. Despite this, they do ask the delegation to thank Louis for seeing sense and ordering the occupying troops to leave. They hope this will avert escalations and avoid eventual war.
Maria Luisa is of course particularly pleased to speak in the French tongue once again. She misses France so much, but is delighted to have a child on the way. She asks the delegation to assure her mother-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte, that she is fine and finally enjoying her life in Spain.
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