$ Chapter 1647 Frogampfog (Thirty-Five)

No. 1g&fog (35)

The French love running, so it is not strange that Alessandro, who used to play for the school football team, was running while checking the situation in Montsouris Park.

From the satellite map, Montsouris Park is a piece of green space. However, apart from the mental hospital that is not open to the public, the park is actually a flat-topped mountain. Inside the flat-topped mountain is a hidden underground palace, which is supported by hundreds of columns. Under the arch is crystal clear, blue-glowing water.

This place is the Montsouris Reservoir, and the purified water in it is enough for a quarter of Parisians to drink. The person responsible for designing this reservoir is Eugene Bergeron, who is also the designer of the Saint-Martin Canal Underground Museum. While Haussmann was designing the above-ground buildings, Bergeron was responsible for building canals and reservoirs to bring springs and river water into Paris, so as to free Parisians from the threat of cholera.

The huge underground system designed by Bergrand became the main exhibit at the 1867 Paris International Exposition, and the scale, complexity and cost of the Montsouris Reservoir were the largest in the late 19th century. It was dug in 1868 and took five years to build. At that time, Napoleon III's empire was already in turmoil. Originally, Bergrand wanted to show the reservoir to the guests attending the World Expo as a new exhibit. After the end of the Second Empire, it was abandoned. The Third Republic that succeeded continued to invest in the construction for the practical use of the reservoir. Of course, it was not as magnificent as Bergrand's original design, but even the "rough" was enough to make people breathtaking.

Below the reservoir is the ancient Capucin quarry. The stone used to build Notre Dame de Paris was mined from this quarry. The quarry and the reservoir are open to the public. Alejandro went in to visit. The quarry displays stone displays from different strata. For example, the Montsouris Reservoir, which is shaped like the interior of the cathedral, has the nickname of "water storage temple".

People like the charming Paris now, but they are very opposed to Haussmann, the reformer. Before the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III could still support Haussmann's reform under pressure. After the Franco-Prussian War broke out, his team was disbanded by Napoleon III in 1870. But those projects were still going on in 1927. Today's downtown Paris and its unique appearance after receiving the plan are the result of Haussmann's transformation.

Theoretically, if the stone of Notre Dame de Paris was mined from the Capucin quarry, then the fountain in front of Notre Dame should also be from the same place.

However, some people say that the sculpture of Mr. Gray was originally a stone pillar of a shopping street. No one knows who he is. They can only see a snake beside him. Some people say that it is a Roman boundary stone. If this is true, then the stone of this statue and fountain is likely to have been transported from Rome.

The Egyptian pyramids look dilapidated now, not entirely because of weathering. From ancient times to the present, people have dismantled the stones of the pyramids for use in the construction of contemporary buildings. In 1748, when the authorities decided to expand the square, this sculpture was demolished along with many surrounding buildings. At that time, it was the Austrian War, and Louis XV was fighting while renovating the city.

Shortly after the fountain was demolished, around 1750, a strange case of missing children occurred in Paris. If the dissatisfaction and complaints of the Parisians about Louis XV's laziness and selfishness in the 1940s remained verbal and formal, the case of missing children led the citizens to the road of rebellion.

The Austrian War ended in 1749, a year before the series of cases. Although the sons of Parisian craftsmen were not like those nobles, who had kingdoms to inherit, their parents still loved them.

These kidnappers are so strange. They neither kidnap the sons of rich people for ransom nor kidnap street children. Instead, they kidnap the sons of saddlers, shoemakers and shop workers. If they really want pure blood to treat lepers, they can use the blood of little girls, but the kidnapped girls are still a minority.

The "holy child" in the Holy Child Cemetery comes from the Bible story. One day, King Herod had a dream. He secretly summoned the wise men and asked them when the savior star would appear. He sent people to Bethlehem and asked them to carefully search for the child and report the news when they found it. The wise men went, and later they saw a star guiding them in front of them until they stopped at the stable.

At this time, the wise men saw a newly born child. His father, Joseph, was a carpenter. The wise men gave him a lot of gold, frankincense and myrrh as gifts.

On the way back, the wise men dreamed that they should not go back to see King Herod, while Joseph dreamed that he was asked to take his children and wife to Egypt and live there. Joseph got up at night and rushed to Egypt with his children and his mother.

There was also a man named Moses in ancient Egypt. At that time, the Pharaoh ordered midwives to kill all women who gave birth to boys, but girls could live. After giving birth to him, Moses' mother put him in a basket and let him drift down the Nile River. Later, he was found by an Egyptian princess who was taking a bath and adopted him as her son.

King Herod was furious when he found that the wise men had not returned for a long time, so he ordered all boys under the age of two in Bethlehem to be executed.

The king was like this. As long as he felt that the person threatened his rule, he would kill him even if he was a child. Legend has it that Li Shimin heard a prophecy that a woman with the surname Wu would usurp his dynasty, so he killed all the girls with the surname Wu in the empire, and even a man with a nickname of Wu Niang was not spared.

Finally, under the persuasion of the prophet, Li Shimin gave up the pursuit of the Wu girl, and the girl who survived by chance later became the empress Wu Zetian of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.

Napoleon was not born in 1750, and his father Charles Bonaparte was just over four years old. If Charles Bonaparte had been kidnapped at that time, would he have met Letizia and given birth to Napoleon?

But Charles Bonaparte was not in Paris at that time. He was in Ajaccio, Corsica. His parents were not craftsmen in Paris. The ages of the victims were concentrated between 11 and 12 years old. The Bonaparte family, who were minor nobles in Corsica, were at best middle-class in Paris, which was similar to these saddlers and shoemakers. At first, the Paris police suspected that these children were abducted by juvenile gangs. Most parents would tell their children not to go with strangers casually, but did not warn them not to go with "brothers and sisters".

These juvenile criminals are 20 years old and 9 years old. They are involved in murder cases at a young age.

The children arrested by the police are younger than this age, but the social identity of these juvenile criminals is the hooligans on the streets of Paris. If they are paid, they don't mind running errands. At the same time, this also means that they can spread rumors at will. They only need to cry in public and say that they were almost kidnapped, and enthusiastic citizens will believe them. Who would doubt a child in his teens?

Rumors are an uncontrollable phenomenon. Parisians are more inclined to believe whispers that are circulated secretly than to public announcements. Then rumors lead to more rumors. The police are no longer trusted because they are also involved in kidnapping in the rumors. This eventually caused social panic and led to the death of Paris Police Chief Rabe.

Gianluca followed Severus's instructions and investigated the report records left by the Louvre at the Paris Police Department. There was indeed no record of the theft of the Pensieve, and there was no record of the theft of other cultural relics. Instead, there was a record of the arrest of a man disguised as a plaster sculpture.

Even hackers have their hands tied. He really couldn't find out where the fountain stones removed during the expansion of Notre Dame were used. Fortunately, the National Library of France is digitizing documents and building an online library, and he found such a data from 1750.

"Around 12 years old, the son of a craftsman?" Alessandro, who was sweating, asked Gianluca while drinking water.

"I'm looking up celebrities during the French Revolution. Maybe he ruined the Bourbon royal family." Gianluca said.

"Isn't it Robespierre?" Alessandro asked again.

"Robespierre was born in 1758, and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all lawyers in Calais." Gianluca said.

"Oh my God, it sounds crazy." Monica said with disgust.

"No one said this is the truth." Severus said, "This is our own guess."

"Should I continue to look for the whereabouts of those stones, or continue to follow this clue?" Gianluca asked.

"Whatever you want." Severus said lazily, "How is Leroy doing over there?"

"You can contact him yourself." Gianluca said, and then hung up the phone.

"What should we do next?" Monica said.

Severus thought about it, and picked up the mirror that Cloris gave him again. A scene appeared in it. A bronze sculpture of an angel was standing in a pool with a sword in his hand.

"I know this place, it's the Michel Fountain!" Monica shouted, and took out the travel magazine she bought from her bag.

"Let me see." Alessandro leaned over to see, but was pushed away by Monica.

"You stink, stay away from me." Monica said.

"Let's go, I'll take you to take a shower." Severus said, "By the way, change your clothes. There is a very formal party tonight, held in Versailles, you go change your clothes."

"What about me?" Monica pointed at herself and said.

Severus curled his lips. "My time is precious. I won't wait for you to spend an hour putting on makeup."

"Give me your costume bag." Monica said confidently. "I promise you will be eye-catching at the party."