You have done it, you have made a time machine. All that's left is to use it, so you step in and set it to a 100 years before the French revolution. You then step outside into a garden with a large castle in view. Suddenly the time machine explodes leaving you stranded in the 1600's. As you think of what to do somebody taps you on the shoulder, a girl looks at you with curiosity.

Salutations good stranger, might i bid why thou are in mine issue's royal garden?