The Cicognara family's garden could not compare to the palace gardens, whether in size or decoration. It could not even compare to the Chaptal family's garden.
But considering that Chaptal's home had once belonged to the Marquis of Choiseul, and that besides his residence in Paris, Talleyrand also had a château in Valençay—said to be practically a little Tuileries, where Talleyrand spent much of his time and where countless European dignitaries and diplomats came as guests—a diplomat's home was, to some extent, a nation's "small reception room."
If the Knights Templar had people specifically responsible for diplomacy, perhaps their Grand Master would not have needed to return to Europe in person. The Knights of Malta had dedicated officials for diplomacy and domestic affairs, no matter how tiny a state it was.
The grandfather of "the Handsome" Philip IV, Louis IX, launched two Crusades and emptied the treasury to welcome the holy relic known as the Crown of Thorns.
So although he had grown up at court and had never been to the Holy Land, after ascending the throne, he did his best to rid himself of the Crusades and devoted himself to unifying France proper and consolidating royal power.
The direct consequence of destroying the Knights Templar was not merely the loss of the Holy Land and those Crusader states. After Ayurbarwada disrupted the order of imperial succession, the Yuan dynasty remained in turmoil for at least twenty years. Although the Mamluk Sultanate expanded rapidly, it had excellent cavalry but no navy. After annexing most of the former Sultanate of Rum, the Ottoman Empire occupied Üsküdar. It was not only a port, but also lay on the eastern bank of the Bosporus Strait. Cross the strait, and there were the Balkans.
Constantinople was not so easy to conquer, so the