Roxanna Comes to the Palace
*playing cards in the salon*
Nanette: Have you got any 2’s?
Violetta: No. Have you got any 2’s?
Nanette: Oh... lost again 😔
Clarisse: It’s ok Nannie, I lose to her all the time too.
Violetta: I pray this princess joining us tonight is a decent card player.
Clarisse: What Princess!?
*Rosaire busts in*
Rosaire: A PRINCESS?
Violetta: My Sir Auguste found a Russian Princess among the peasants at a meat market in Paris. He’s insisting on bringing her for dinner tonight.
Rosaire: My God. She just spoke two sentences in a row.
Clarisse: You must hurry my dear! I’ve nothing to wear and I’m out of my perfume! Bring me something that gives the impression “there’s only room for one royal princess at this palace”
Nanette: Ok! It shall be silk and it shall be sublime!
Rosaire: I must makeup my face! Do not mind my using your brow paint 😏
Clarisse: But I very much do! 😤
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*the fantastic four at the courtyard*
Clarisse: The carriage is coming! Poses people!
*Auguste gets out the carriage, cape flowing in the breeze, heels clacking on the asphalt*
*Roxanna jumps out, dressed in a flow-y white dress and embroidered purple vest and they approach*
Auguste: I present Princess Roxanna, Grand Duchess of Russia.
Roxanna: 😬
Clarisse: I am Clarisse, welcome to my palace.
Rosaire: I am her knight, Rosaire.
Nanette: *Curtseys awkwardly* I picked out her dress.
Violetta: 🙄
Roxanna: I’m Roxanna 😐
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*at the dining table*
Rosaire: So, what brought you to Paris?
Roxanna: I had to leave Germany 🤭
Rosaire: What brought you... there?
Roxanna: I had to leave Denmark.
Rosaire: Splendid! 🤥
Clarisse: Have you a Russian court dress? I would love to see it
Roxanna: I trashed it in Poland.
Clarisse: Nanette will get you a new one then! From my dressmaker.
Nanette: *pulls out a parchment and and fountain pen* Could you draw it for me? 😚
Roxanna: *draws it*
Rosaire: How... peculiar 😳
Violetta: I love it.
Nanette: So you travel then! What’s your favorite place you’ve been to?
Roxanna: I’ve left my heart in Venice.
Violetta: Me too...
Nanette: Venice...?
Rosaire: A city in the ocean, smells like terrible. You’d hate it. I’ve heard there be mermaids there?
Roxanna: There are!
Clarisse: You will join me for a morning walk tomorrow, won’t you Grande Duchesse? 🙂
Roxanna: No, I’m taking one of your horses to scout the forest.
Clarisse: 🙃
*playing cards in the salon*
Nanette: Have you got any 2’s?
Violetta: No. Have you got any 2’s?
Nanette: Oh... lost again 😔
Clarisse: It’s ok Nannie, I lose to her all the time too.
Violetta: I pray this princess joining us tonight is a decent card player.
Clarisse: What Princess!?
*Rosaire busts in*
Rosaire: A PRINCESS?
Violetta: My Sir Auguste found a Russian Princess among the peasants at a meat market in Paris. He’s insisting on bringing her for dinner tonight.
Rosaire: My God. She just spoke two sentences in a row.
Clarisse: You must hurry my dear! I’ve nothing to wear and I’m out of my perfume! Bring me something that gives the impression “there’s only room for one royal princess at this palace”
Nanette: Ok! It shall be silk and it shall be sublime!
Rosaire: I must makeup my face! Do not mind my using your brow paint 😏
Clarisse: But I very much do! 😤
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*the fantastic four at the courtyard*
Clarisse: The carriage is coming! Poses people!
*Auguste gets out the carriage, cape flowing in the breeze, heels clacking on the asphalt*
*Roxanna jumps out, dressed in a flow-y white dress and embroidered purple vest and they approach*
Auguste: I present Princess Roxanna, Grand Duchess of Russia.
Roxanna: 😬
Clarisse: I am Clarisse, welcome to my palace.
Rosaire: I am her knight, Rosaire.
Nanette: *Curtseys awkwardly* I picked out her dress.
Violetta: 🙄
Roxanna: I’m Roxanna 😐
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*at the dining table*
Rosaire: So, what brought you to Paris?
Roxanna: I had to leave Germany 🤭
Rosaire: What brought you... there?
Roxanna: I had to leave Denmark.
Rosaire: Splendid! 🤥
Clarisse: Have you a Russian court dress? I would love to see it
Roxanna: I trashed it in Poland.
Clarisse: Nanette will get you a new one then! From my dressmaker.
Nanette: *pulls out a parchment and and fountain pen* Could you draw it for me? 😚
Roxanna: *draws it*
Rosaire: How... peculiar 😳
Violetta: I love it.
Nanette: So you travel then! What’s your favorite place you’ve been to?
Roxanna: I’ve left my heart in Venice.
Violetta: Me too...
Nanette: Venice...?
Rosaire: A city in the ocean, smells like terrible. You’d hate it. I’ve heard there be mermaids there?
Roxanna: There are!
Clarisse: You will join me for a morning walk tomorrow, won’t you Grande Duchesse? 🙂
Roxanna: No, I’m taking one of your horses to scout the forest.
Clarisse: 🙃