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The motto of Louise de Savoie was "God gave me wings! I will fly and rest later." This work explores in detail the relationship of Louise, who came to be the mother of the heir to the Crown of France during the life of Louis XII, and the world of French culture and politics, which included the career of her son François, Duke of Valois. The story of how a woman, who was not a queen, gave birth to King François Ier is complex. The book ends well before her death in 1535, after decades of decision making behind the scenes. In this era "One was individualist and optimistic, which is to say that one was young....We will get to know one of the particular elements of this society, by entering th...
"The present translation of the canonical and civil trials of Gilles de Rais is based for the most part on Marie Alphonse René de Maulde La Clavière's edition in Latin and Middle French published in Bossard's Gilles de Rais."--P. 23.