Part Two: Wicked Hearts

## **December 26, 1765**

**Viktor** speaks with **Maria Theresa** about **Versailles** suspecting that **Francois** poisoned the King and tells him to find out the true cause of **Louis XV's** death and will not marry her daughter to a country where her throne can be taken from her.

## **December 30, 1765 Chateau de Versailles**

**Intro:**

*"Le roi est mort, longue vie au roi!"*

The devastating words that echo through every corner and hall, the words on the tip of the tongue of the nobility and servants, and the words that announced the death of King Louis XV on Christmas Eve. The kings heir, the Dauphin Louis-Ferdianand, is now King Louis XVI. Most believe a younger king will bring refreshing changes that the monarchy desperately needs and bring France to a better era. But some aren't deceived and believe he will be just like his predecessors..

Low voices, seas of black silk, and nobles leaving in droves to the Basilica de Saint-Denis, can only mean one thing. Today is the Kings funeral. The King's poisoning death is the topic on many courtiers lips. The Royal Guard are now investigating who the traitor, or traitors, could be...

**Charles** and **Jeanne** talk about if they should keep the window curtains closed or not. **Charles** agrees to keep them open in the morning and they both leave for the funeral.

**Lucille** takes a basket of clothing to the laundry room

**Rene** holds his niece **Annette** and looks after his nephew **Sebastian**

**Louis** gets wasted in his apartments.

**Guy** is in his office tired. He leaves and calls for **Lucille** who had dropped a cloth.

**Lucille** asks **Guy** if she can help him.

**Guy** gets the cloth and told **Lucille** she dropped it in the hall and apologies.

**Lucille** thanks him and asked if he is feeling all right

**Guy** told her to be on her way and leaves

**Celine** goes to the kitchens

**Guy** bumps into **Celine** and excuses himself.

**Celine** says it was she who bumped into him and offers to get him something to eat.

**Guy** accepted and asked **Celine** for her name

**Celine** said her name and asked him the same and moved out of the hall into the kitchen

**Guy** said his name and asked how long **Celine** has been in the palace

**Celine** says long enough to recognize his name and says she owes him another pastry.

**Guy** tells her to keep it and he can not stay long.

**Celine** offered a warm drink.

**Guy** waits and then pours **Celine** drink and asked if she has family here.

**Celine** thanks **Guy** and says she has a sister **Lucille** and asks the same.

**Guy** says his mother and his father died of the winter plague when he was younger of winter plague.

**Celine** says his mother must be proud of him and his father would be too and asks if he sees his mother odten.

**Guy** says he sees her often and it's only family they can trust now.

**Celine** agrees especially the way people talk about those whom they know nothing about. She gives **Guy** a bag of Christmas cookies and tells him it's for him and his mother.

**Lea** is awaken by her ladies and gets ready for the funeral and she left for the funeral.

**Guy** thanks **Celine** and kisses her hand and wishes her a fine morning and leaves.

**Francois** leaves for the funeral

**Victoire** and **Henriette** talk about the bread riots in **Paris** while they leave the laundry room

**Celine** stares out the kitchen window.

**Guy** walks into the **Guard Antechamber** and asks **Henri** for reports and is told that there is still nothing. He says that **Louis XV** died of hemlock and gives **Guy** a paper with suspects. Then says he has a theory about **Henriette** and **Victoire** and **Charles** and that he has a bad feeling about **Charles**.**Guy** allows **Henri** to question **Victoire** and **Henriette** after the funeral. **Guy** leaves to go to the funeral.

**Charles** goes to the funeral.

**Isabelle** is getting ready for the funeral. **Laurent** asked if she is all right and where she got her diamond necklace and tells him it was a gift and tells him they should be going.

**Celine** goes to the stables and feeds a horse.

**Guy** watches the funeral and thinks.

**Charles** watches the funeral.

**Lea** watches the funeral.

**Therese** watched the funeral

**Rene** walked to the stables and hears other stable hands talking about **Louis XV's** death and gets nervous.

**Guy** starts to leave the funeral and see **Charles** and **Jeanne** and tells a guard to tell **Henri** to search **Charles's** apartments.

**Charles** left the cathedral with **Jeanne** while worrying.

**Henri** gets his orders and goes to **Charles's** apartments and orders his men to search the room. He sits at a chair and starts drinking the tea on the table

(THAT'S NOT YOURS HENRI!!!!!!!!!))

**Charles** finds **Henri** in his room and is **PISSED** and asks what the hell he was doing.

**Henri** greets **Charles** and tells him he is Lieutenant Fosse and tells **Charles** he is heading an investigation and it shouldn't take up too much time.

**Charles** asks if **Henri** if he is going to tell him what the investigation is for or if he supposed to figure that out himself

**Henri** ignores his questions and says it's a small investigation and says he has questions for **Victoire** and **Henriette.**

**Victoire** and **Henriette** enter soon after and **Charles** tells them about **Henri** and he leaves with **Jeanne.**

**Henri** tells one of his men to guard the door and asks for **Victoire** and **Henriette's** names

**Victoire** tells **Henri** both of their names. **Henriette** leaves and **Victoire** asks what type of questions.

**Jeanne** waits in the hall with **Charles** and says she is worried and **Charles** says it will be fine

**Henri** asks **Victoire** to have a seat and asks how long she has been in service to **Charles**

**Victoire** sits down and says about five years now and if **Charles** is suspect for anything.

**Henri** says he is and is everyone and tells **Victoire** that **Louis XV** was murdered. Then asks for her age, if her family still lives and where she is from.

(Henri is going to regret telling Victoire that. Pro tip: If you don't want Charles to know something don't tell it to anyone in his inner circle because they **will** tell him)

**Victoire** tells **Henri** she is 22 and from **Calais** where her father lives. Then tells him that on Christmas Eve she and her sister helped **Jeanne** get ready for the **Christmas Eve Ball** and they played cards until it was over. Neither of them left the apartments on that day.

**Henri** asks what the winning hand of the card game.

**Victoire** says she thinks she played a queen of spades but it was a while ago.

**Henri** tells **Victoire** to stay where she was and tells the man guarding the door to get **Henriette.**

**Henriette** is brought inside.

**Henri** asks who won the card game.

**Henriette** said **Victoire**

**Jeanne** and **Charles** wait outside

**Henri** thanks **Jeanne** and **Charles** for their compliance and wishes them a pleasant afternoon.

**Charles** tells **Henri** to wish nothing was stolen for all of their sakes and goes back into his apartment. He tells **Jeanne** to tell him if anything is stolen or broken and went to his room and throws up from stress

**Henri** get back to the Guards Rooms and asks for his men to empty their pockets. Finds nothing stolen and goes into **Guy's** office and told **Guy** nothing was found. **Guy** tells him to keep an eye on **Charles** and those he associates with. **Henri** suggests of spies in the ranks reporting to them **Guy** eventually agrees if he can find someone trustworthy. **Henri** leaves.

**Louis XVI** is still drunk in his apartment and is helped by Minister Jacques and asks for **Princess Lea** to be told she was at Louis XV's funeral.

**Lea** returns from the funeral and goes to see **Louis** and asked minister Jacques to leave and says he must have courage

**Louis** asks what is he doesn't make a good king

**Celine** is in the stables and walks back to the palace

**Lucille** sees her and asks her what she was doing outside

**Celine** tells her not to worry and says she talked with **Guy**

**Lucille** says she did too and asks what they spoke of

**Francois** walks the halls

**Guy** rides his horse to his mother Eve's house outside of Paris were they talked talked about court. Then rides back to **Versailles**

**Celine** tells **Lucille** nothing of importance and asked what she talked about

**Lucille** says he met him near the laundry room after she dropped a rag and warned her not to speak to the **Guard**

**Lea** tells **Louis** he will be a better King than **Louis XVI** and tells him to rest

**Louis** thanks **Lea** and sleeps

**Jeanne** gives **Charles** a gift in his study

**Celine** fixes up **Isabelle's** apartments

**Lucille** is cleaning the floors with the maids

**Isabelle** goes to her apartments and sees **Celine**

**Celine** apologizes to **Isabelle**

**Isabelle** introduces herself and lets **Celine** do her work

**Celine** tells her it's no problem

**Viktor** is en route to Versailles, writes a letter to his wife

**Charles** is still stressed and goes out into the courtyard

**Lea** stays with **Louis**

**Isabelle** asks **Celine** her name

**Guy** has a dream about being hanged in his office, Henri wakes him up to tell him that a Marquis wishes to speak with him.

**Victoire** and **Henriette** play cards and speak about the invesitgation

## December 31st

**Charles** walks around the palace

**Alexandrine** is in bed and kicks out a girl she spent the night with

**Viktor** arrives at the palace.

**Alexandrine** walks around the palace with **Isabelle** and says she would like to befriend **Jeanne** and if **Laurent** still despises her and **Isabelle** says he still doesn't like her being in her company.

**Lea** goes to greet **Viktor**

**Viktor** greets **Lea**

**Victoire** is called into **Charles** call her name. She goes in and he tells her to go to **Paris** and tell **Pierre Du Bois** basically everything about what's happened recently, gives her money, and to go to **Delac's** to buy something. Victoire agrees and gets ready to leave.

(Is it unrealistic for Victoire to have been able to get out of Versailles? Yes. But is it convenient for the plot? Yea)

**Henri** watches and **Lea** and **Viktor** speak and directs the servants with the baggage.

**Victoire** speaks with **Henriette** before leaving.

**Jeanne** knows something is up and asks where **Victoire** went. **Charles** tells her **Delac's** and about the reception for **Viktor** and **Edward.**

**Guy** goes to see **Louis** and is informed that **Viktor** has arrived. He speaks with **Minister Jacques** and tells him the news and then leads him into **Louis's** room.

**Louis** asks **Guy** how **Louis XV** died. **Guy** tells him by poison and they are still trying to find the murderer. **Louis** dismissed **Guy. Minister Jacques** tells **Louis** that Austria and England won't be in the dark about the real cause of the King's death for long.

**Georgine** is in the apartments chilling.

**Viktor** is in his apartments and is told that **Edward** was also going to be there.

**Victoire** leaves for **Paris** via hired carriage

**Victoire** makes it to **Pierre**'s gambling salon and spill the tea and commissions work and she gives him papers and money then leaves

**Charles** looks down into the Cour des Princes from his apartments to look out for the Guards. He sees **Xavier** and the **Duc de Brissac** and wonders why the hell he is there. He went to write the **Duc de Brissac's** name on a paper.

**Caroline** speaks with her mother about her marriage

**Victoire** goes to **Delac's**

**Charles** is bored and decides to stir the pot and speak with **Guy**. He goes to the Guard's apartments and requests an audience.

**Guy** is informed someone wishes to see him and sees **Charles** outside his office, he offers for them to go inside.

**Charles** says he has a few questions for him.

**Viktor** is told by his secretary that everything is prepared and notices the palace seems empty.

**Celine** finds **Lucille** and helps clean the floors.

**Lucille** is already almost done and asks her where she was.

**Guy** offers him to have a seat and says he would be happy to answer any questions

**Charles** asks how he believes the blockade will go for him.

**Viktor** is escorted to **Louis's** apartments

**Anais** is in her apartments with her companion **Marguerite** bored and they go for a walk around the palace.

**Francois** is with his father in the **Duc d'Harcourt's** apartments in a meeting of the **Les Conservators faction** in order to get a position as his assistant. They are mostly making fun of **Charles.** He wishes to talk about the ministry but is interrupted when **Xavier** comes into the room. **Francois** and **Xavier** introduce themselves and is shocked to learn that the man was **Charles's** brother, as they did not look alike. **The Duc d'Harcourt** says he is sorry to hear about the **Comte de Valois** and says that **Charles** won't say anything to him. **The Duc d'Harcourt** tells him about **Charles's** apartments being raided by the **Guard. The Duc de Polginac** tells **Francois** that the **Comte de Valois** was really sick and that **Xavier** will be the next **Comte de Valois** and **Charles** knows nothing about it.