For ordinary civilians, it was almost impossible to know the whereabouts of a national leader, but insiders could easily inquire about it. Georgiana only had to ask around at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to learn that Napoleon was inspecting the stock exchange at Brongniart Palace.
Unless there was a holiday, the stock exchange would not deliberately close for a day just to welcome an inspection. But the French no longer believed in God. Not only were there no weekends, there was not even Christmas. Ordinary workers labored around eleven hours a day. The prolonged work was taking a toll on their health, and without rest, their attention faltered, leading to plenty of workplace accidents.
How could there be consumption without holidays? Thus, the main consumers were women who stayed at home.
The First Consul's annual salary was fixed by the constitution at only five hundred thousand. Yet he gave her five hundred thousand a month. She knew that could not last.
When men pursued women, they used every method at their disposal, including overwhelming them with money. The French way of fighting was to charge fiercely in the first wave, like a tsunami; the attacks that followed were never as intense.
As for Napoleon giving his mother Letizia so much spending money every month, that was because he wanted to. Letizia was extremely frugal, just as she had been in Corsica. As for his sister, Josephine, Napoleon had always kept a tight rein on her.
The moment Georgiana thought of this, her mind became a mess.
Severus had never controlled her money, and he had even been granted shared access to her vault. Whenever he spent extravagantly, it was only to stop her from "being foolish" like Albus, or else, as at the Louvre Museum last time, to deliberately