Eye-candy of diverse flavors

Two spectacular reports of recent battles in the New World, one in the Northern Colonies, the other in the Caribbean.


Those curious about the good Baron Munchausen's improvements on the war engines depicted in the Da Vinci Code and the experimental weapons designed by that young Colonial Benjamin Franklin to use the power of the thunderflash of lightning, should subscribe to that Gazette entitled 'Gaslightrules Group' (it's free) to peruse and enjoy the two portfolios of fascinating and inspirational illustrations entitled 'Age of Reason' and 'Ben Franklin's War'.

At last, those interested in the esotericism and the supernatural would enjoy the well illustrated report of an adventure filled with weird encounters that took place in far away Pangaea.

A public reply from Monte-Cristo

To all Our Brothers,
Rulers of Europe and Other Lands.

Our Cousin Karl Frederick of Tradgarland had, this We acknowledge gratefully, the honesty to lead You to a copy of the Private Letter he so inelegantly comments on the Public Place. Thus, please read it and judge by Yourselves how Philosophically Correct are Our Words & Motivations.
Indeed Our very Civilization would be jeopardized by the uncontrolled introduction of ‘machines’ in everyday life, but more specially on The Fields of Mars. «Progress» lures Us with its benevolents & charming aspects (see left), but is worse than a two-edged sword: the positive edge is blunt, the negative razor-sharp.





Brother Rulers, do You want Your Armies –these Mighty Forces You patiently built, Your deserved Pride– thrown down into obsolescence? Do You wish to have to spend fortunes in building War Balloons? And, in order to counter those airboats of your rivals, to stoop so low as to mount quadruple Puckle’s machine guns on fast carts as ‘Flugzeug Abwehr Maschinengewehre’? Do You wish to raze to the ground all Your forests (endangering many animal species, and depriving You of the pleasures of the Hunt), or to poison the Air, then Water and very Earth with deleterious coal smokes, merely to move Your steam-powered new frigates or cannon-armed heavy warwagons? Do You wish to see Your gallant Cavalry riding ludicrious ‘velociferes’? Do You really wish the greasy cranks & cogwheels to get the better of the chivalrous Sword?

Indeed, Brother Rulers, how far are you ready to accept the alienation of Our ‘Lace Wars’ by the mechanists and enginneers?




No intention could be more foreign to Ours than any attempt to suppress the Curiosity & Inventivity of the Human Mind –which set Us apart of all other other Creatures. All of Us, Enlightened Rulers of Our Time, are justly proud of encouraging & supporting them. But the step between single prototypes and ‘industrial’ production& use is where We put the impassable barrier.

With Our Fraternal Affection,
Louys of Monte-Cristo

Technological Breakthroughs of Military Interest in Monte-Cristo

The Bureau des Sciences Appliquees et de l’Ingenierie, a Branch of the Presipapal Academy of Sciences, is proud to reveal some of the recent innovative creations of the Institut Munchausen. Named after the well-known Baron who greatly honored us by working one full year here as its Consulting Director, the Institut, now under the enlightened and dynamic direction of Pr. Otto Sigurd Nemopholist, Ph D, with Dr. Albert Robida as Maitre-Assistant, is actually the *Internal* Reserach and Development Section of the B.S.A.. The ‘Service des Recherches Exterieures’ is indeed an independent Agency directly under Presipapal control: very little is known about it, other than that it could be also bear an other name (an often whispered acronym is generally quoted).
Among these new devices of warfare let us mention the ‘Carabine Culassiere’, the ‘Crache-Mitraille’, the ‘Canon-Obusier Culassier’, the ‘Artillerie Volante’, the ‘Taupe-Behemoth a Vapeur’, the ‘Petardier Subaquatique’, the ‘Esquif Aerien’…..

Please go to the Monte-Cristan Board to discover their illustrated descriptions.

All these Engines of Apocalyptic War and Horrendeous Destruction being totally alien to the "Peace & Love" ethos of Monte-Cristo, each of the 20 projects will be sold anonymously by mail auction. Neither the names nor the total number of the bidders will be published. The entry fee is fixed to 1,000 Louis d’Or (or the equivalent in Swiss currency) for each of the 20 auctions. Outbidded (even id indirectly, when two patents are auctioned separatly but have to be attributed together) competitors will know by how much, so they can improve their proposals. All auctions to be closed by the day of Saint Michel, the Warrior Archangel, at noon.
The winners –once their payment accepted by the Presipapal Bank for Sustainable Development and Constantly Increasing Profit– will receive (in a plainly brown-wrapped, unmarked, parcel) all relevant technical drawings and descriptions, building instructions and directions for use, together with the certified acts of intellectual property. Their identity, and the amount paid, will be kept secret.
Send serious proposals to the Board of Lucrative Patents, the Presipapal Palace, Monte-Cristo.