Chapter 165 Looking Around Hundreds of Elders

He was born in Moulins, and he had learned several awards in Moulins Middle School in his childhood, and was awarded by the Duke of Neverney himself, who he called the Duke of Nevers the Duke of Nevers.Neither the National Convention, the death of Louis XVI, Napoleon, nor the restoration of the Bourbon royal family could dilute his memory of that awards ceremony.In his opinion, the "Duke of Nevers" was the great man of that century. "What a lovely nobleman," he used to say, "with his blue sash on his shoulders, so proud!" In M. Gillenormand's eyes, Catherine II bought gin from Besdoshev for three thousand rubles. The secret recipe has already atoned for the crime of partitioning Poland.He was very excited about this issue. "Gin," he cried, "Besdoshev's yellow tincture, the drink of General Lamotte, in the eighteenth century half-twins cost a louis a bottle, the elixir of the frustrated in love, the subjugation of love God's nectar. Louis XV sent 200 bottles to the Pope." If someone told him that gin was just ferric chloride, he would be furious.Monsieur Gillenormand, who adores the Bourbons and regards 1789 as a catastrophe, goes on and on about how he survived the Terror, how he had fun and how clever he was, so that he was not cut off. head.If a young man dared to praise the republic in his presence, he would turn blue with rage and faint.Sometimes, referring to his age of ninety, he evasively said, "I hope I don't see ninety-three twice." At other times, he confided that he wanted to live to be a hundred.