(17th century in France)

Your servant Andrei was very attached to you as his master, as he was to his other masters. (Jean-Baptiste, Nicolas-Gabriel, Charles-Henri and Marie-Josèphe Sanson.)

But he was especially attached to you. Since you were the youngest in the Sanson family, he treated you like a little princess. He always did everything for you. He wouldn't even let you put on your shoes, but tied them neatly for you... just like he was doing now.

"I can do it myself, you know..."

You say with slight annoyance as he sits on one knee, carefully and elegantly tying your shoelaces.

"I know you do, but I don't want you to worry about trivial things like those..."

He says, looking at you with a small, friendly smile.