A coin was tossed high into the air, then landed on the "referee's" hand.
In the end, Georgiana chose football. Though she did not understand the offside rule either, they quickly agreed, because the game really was simple—as long as no one used their hands. Besides, some of them had played before.
Alessandro Torlonia blew a small whistle, which gave a soft chirp, and then the side that had guessed the coin correctly gained the right to kick off.
Most of them were playing for the first time, so their dribbling was clumsy. She believed they would improve after a while. It was like Quidditch; at first, there were only a few simple moves.
The French soldiers left behind were also watching them play. Murat had taken all the elite troops with him this time because he needed to march by force. Those who remained were either wounded or too old to endure such a march.
Alessandro had been in Britain and had heard that the earliest modern football came from Eton College.
Georgiana sat in the pavilion and took a sip of black tea.
It was the Church that supported primogeniture. Perhaps Torlonia could defy neither Bonaparte nor the Church, which was why there was a "second eldest son." In any case, she had seen nothing exceptional about Alessandro.
The Civil Code was not even properly enforced in France. The countryside still practiced primogeniture, with the eldest son inheriting the principal lands so that the property would not be divided into several plots that were inconvenient to cultivate and manage.
Thomas Jefferson thought the same way. He did not intend to have exclaves; he wanted the national territory joined into one whole.
For Italy to unite into one piece, it inevitably had to deal with the Papal States. They