还得是法鸡
,彼得与叶一一起周游西欧时,其他各国都承认了叶一的皇后身份,只有法鸡不认
,不让叶一进凡尔赛,彼得只能给叶一买各种礼物安慰她。(当然英国连彼得本人都不欢迎)
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By the end of February Peter was well enough to show her toured Amsterdam, sailed the canals, and saw the little house at Zaardam where Peter had lived when, years before, he had worked as an apprentice in the shipyards. She went to Utrecht, to Rotterdam,and to the Hague, where 'all imaginable Honours were paid her',met the merchant Christopher Brandt and others of Peter's old friends, looked at buildings, admired van Dycks, Rubens , Brueghels,Rembrandts, but above all the seascapes of Adam Silo, of which they bought several to decorate their house at Peterhof.
But when Peter left for Paris, Catherine stayed behind in Holland,the French having made it clear that she would not be welcome at their court. As for the English, they refused to receive even Peter now, apparently on her account. He did his best to console her,sending her presents by every post. Lace arrived from Brussels,then a parrot, some canaries, a monkey, a selection of plants, a French dwarf, and, towards the end of April, a giant, seven foot five inches tall named Nicholas Bourgeois whom Peter had found in Calais and sent on with a note enjoining Catherine to have him well fed and cared for.