Whether it was the bells of two hundred years ago or two hundred years later, they sounded much the same.
On the road from the outskirts of Paris to Versailles stood a newly built little town, converted from a military camp that had once housed twenty thousand soldiers loyal to the House of Bourbon.
It had been abandoned for a long time. One day, Bonaparte and the Scottish Rose stumbled across it while out for a drive. Now it served as a settlement for Britons living in France. Timber walls surrounded it, and it had clean water within. With enough food and fodder stockpiled, it could be held as a camp.
Grave robbing remained impossible to stamp out, especially when it came to the bodies of young women. When the Britons first moved in, they clashed with the residents of neighboring Sèvres Town over precisely this matter. Georgiana had been the one to mediate and settle it.
According to The Prince, no matter how powerful an army was, occupying a place required the support of the locals.
Although there was no evidence that the Britons had done it, Georgiana still passed judgment according to the Sackley Law: those who stole graves and stripped corpses were forbidden from associating with anyone until the victim's parents accepted compensation and requested that they be allowed to return to society.
In the end, members of the chamber of commerce paid a sum to comfort the mother who had lost her daughter. The townspeople there also had only limited dealings with the Britons; there was none of the enthusiasm seen in Paris.
Only then did many people recall the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre during the Wars of Religion, ordered by Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici. Given the current ambiguous situation between Britain and France, many