The Tale of the French Prince !

The Ball of Honour (part 1 of 2)

Unlike most magical communities, who obviously preferred to hide from the view of all through invisible avenues inaccessible to muggles or in empty places, this was not the case for the French and more generally , the kingdoms linked to the Capetians.

All this is linked to a discovery of a famous arithmancer and rune master named Rene Descartes. Indeed, the very famous Muggle philosopher and writer was in fact a famous French wizard major of his promotion of the Academy of Magic of Beauxbatons. It was in 1616, during the reign of Muggle King Louis XIII de Bourbon and the Wizard King Henry V de Valois that came a wonderful idea. The two kings wanted to live in the same place, the castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, however this was not possible following the impossible cohabitation between muggles and wizards. A conflict then began between the two kings, a conflict that resulted in a palpable tension that could at any time reveal the existence of wizards to muggles. It was after this conflict that René Descartes had his grandiose idea.

Possessing a master's degree in Runes and a master's degree in Arithmancy, the latter had the idea of inventing a runic diagram specialized in the creation of parallel ghost dimensions which he then called "Secondary Dimensions". In one year only, the wizard managed to create this schema which he hastened to use on one of his properties before inviting muggles. The result was a real success, and while Rene returned to his property, the muggles did the same but did not appear next to him. They had been transported into a parallel phantom dimension representing the place accurately without being present in the original dimension of the property. Rene Descartes had managed to create a runic scheme to seperate muggles and wizards in a given place.

When the latter presented this discovery to his majesty King Henry V de Valois, he ordered the affixing of these runes all around Saint-Germain-en-Laye to create a magical city. It was a real success, and the brawl seperating the two kings of France could finally come to an end. Rene Descartes was then thanked by recieving the exceptional title of Grand Runemaster of the Royal House of France.

As the years went by, this runic pattern called "Runes Dimensionnelles Anti moldues" (Dimensional Anti Muggles Runes) was increasingly used in the Kingdom of France, jealously guarded by the French people. However, this pattern was still limited due to the highly important source of magic needed to power the runes continuously to maintain the parallel dimensions.

That is why when Louis XIV de Bourbon ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles, his memory was altered by his cousin King Henry V de Valois so that the latter ordered the construction of the Palace of Versailles on a magical flow zone terrestrial, a telluric line. But contrary to popular belief, it was not Muggles who built Versailles but wizards. Thanks to several Muggle repelling wards, a few obliviate and Imperius , the famous Palace of Versailles and its surroundings was built in the sight of all before being overshadowed by Dimensional Anti Muggle Runes.

This feat caused hysteria throughout the Kingdom of France, and several noble houses in France began using these runes to allow their Squibs descendants to live in their castles and maintain a facade for muggles. This was the case for all the ducal houses including Delacour , Malfois , La Force (Caumont) , La Rochefoucauld, Bethune, Grimaldi or Orleans-Dunois.

Shortly after, and the Capetian descendants already controlling a large part of Europe, Henry V authorized the use of these runes in the entire dominion of the Kingdom of France, thus securing the Magic World. Thus in 1789, the French wizards were able to attend the plunder of Muggle Palace of Versailles while knowing that the true Versailles was in perfect safety. King Robert III de Valois, son of Henry V de Valois, being against the Muggle King Louis XVI, decided not to intervene during the French Revolution. He saw in this revolution the opportunity to definitively separate the magical world from the muggle world by eliminating the only people knowing the existence of the magical world, the Muggle Bourbon. The muggles never realized by robbing the Muggle Palace of Versailles that everything was wrong, even the crown of Louis XVI who was cursed by the Valois to still punish the killers of their cousins. And we all know the sad story of the Blue Diamond (though it's a false diamond).