I did send out:
Director of the Fencing School Duc Juan Ferawl don Alferwan (npc JFdA),
While I realize Paris is astir with many important issues, we should
not neglect the education of gentlemen in the handling of swords. As such,
I offer my assistance in teaching at Le Cheval. If you have too many
qualified candidates for that, I would accept appointment as a fencing
instructor at Le Chat.
Yours,
Baron Soire de Success, Lt. General
At 07:13 AM 4/10/01 +0100, Mike Pope wrote:
>[OOC: Anything I have missed - sorry, but I _did_ ask everyone to repost a
>copy to me...]
>
>Vote JBD vs HSE
>Vote GG vs AdM
>DdlV vs GG (no vote - cause)
>SdW vs GG (no vote - cause)
>JdL ARA npc_CdS
>JdL Apply CKE
>JdL ARR npc_JdN
>HdB ARR npc_GdN
>ZZ applies for MwoP
>BJ applies for the position of aide to the FM
>BO Apply Aide_Gen npc KT
>BO Apply Aide_Gen npc OC
>BO Apply Aide_Gen npc SJS
>BO Apply Aide_Gen npc AlL
>BO Apply Aide_Gen npc AT
>DdlV applies to KM Maj
>BdD asks npc_DT to volunteer 4th Foot and/or Gascon Regiment
>
>Ah, good. You are awake then, sir? A happy month, now that the summer
>campaigning is finally over - Paris can rid itself of all the ill-feeling,
>political scandal and boorish, ruffianly behaviour that has built up over
>the last three months. We can at last see a resolution, I trust, of this
>terrible situation between Senior and de Mylcandonai, as well as enjoying
>the no-doubt inflated gossip of what will happen at the meeting of the
>various parties who feel that their honour has been impugned. There is the
>matter between Serf-Edly and Doutron, then there is the standard
>end-of-campaign Grosscanard affair, this time with de Mylcandonai, and
>finally de la Vega and de Wich have challenged Grosscanard publically on the
>grounds of flirting with their respective ladies while they were at the
>front, despite the fact that Diego is due to be married this month. That
>should be a wedding worth attending, if only to see how many bandages the
>groom has to have on show...
>
>De Lacey has returned from his opening campaign with the Royal Foot Guards
>after switching regiments, and apparently has his eyes on the command of the
>King's Escort, if my sources are anything to go by: he has asked de Sevigny
>to resign from the position, although not from the regiment, and is angling
>to get the Paris Governor to appoint him in the man's place. Plus, he has
>asked de Neuson to resign on the grounds of incompetency. Also in the Foot
>Guards, Subaltern Tiffbiskitt has asked Captain Noreis to resign. All in
>all, it looks as though there may well be quite a shakeup in the country's
>premier regiment this month.
>
>Major Zilvain, having acheived the station required, has applied for a post
>as Minister Without Portfolio, although rumour has it that his sights are
>set much higher. He could be stalled, however, as Duc Senior has announced
>his intention to leave Paris at the end of the month and take up post as the
>Governor of Hispaniola. The Minister of State is therefore wary of
>appointing someone just before his retirement, possibly to avoid any later
>charges of nepotism to add to the treason charge which he is already facing.
>
>Oh, and Lt. Gen. d'Eau is stepping down as commander of the Frontier
>Division, so that he can spend some time at home in Paris. Although why he
>couldn't just spend the time here anyway and volunteer the rest of his
>command for the front is a mystery - the last sixteen divisional commanders
>have done it that way, so why not him? Still, I only report the news; how
>it comes about is almost irrelevant. Ah yes, talking of
>irrelevancies...Bijoux de l'Or - he has sent out letters to every single
>General without an aide, applying for the position. That's what comes of
>artillery training, I suppose: he seems to think that if he shoots at enough
>targets, he is bound to hit one of them. What made it worse was the fact
>that he got his manservant to write them all! Bonneface is not the neatest
>of writers, but copying out the same letter five times was a little too much
>like work for de l'Or; he is going to have to write a lot more than that if
>he manages to gain acceptance from one of the Generals...
>
>Our Favourite Spaniard (it says here) is not only getting married this
>month, but joining the King's Musketeers as well. Heh, even if he manages
>not to get his throat slit by Grosscanard, I can almost guarantee that de la
>Vega will look like a hospital patient by the time of his wedding if the
>Cardinal's Guard are on form. Still, I suppose it takes all kinds.
>And...yes, finally: Lt. Colonel de Boop has requested that the 4th Regiment
>of Foot be retained at the front to avoid the Spanish taking back everything
>they lost over the summer. Failing that, he has asked for the Gascon
>Regiment be left at the front, and has expressed his intention to hold his
>Battalion there if his request is completely ignored.
>
>So, the short version of the news is that we can look forward to fights,
>weddings, more fights, a High Court trial for the Minister of State on
>treason charges and resignations from several of the high-ranking regiments.
>If I hear of anything else, I will of course let you know over dinner, sir.
>Good morning.
>
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