Anne and Charles: Passion and Politics in Late Medieval France AUTH-9041621 longtime educators and best-selling authors

longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith

It just doesn’t add up

Chances are

What unfolds is a story of three flawed people struggling with themselves as much as with their circumstances

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Anne and Charles: Passion and Politics in Late Medieval France AUTH-9041621 longtime educators and best-selling authorsWhen Anne of Brittany's father dies in 1488, the eleven year old beauty becomes Duchess of Brittany, her country's ruler. For the next three years, the orphaned, unmarried young duchess is relentlessly pursued by suitors while Brittany is invaded by France, its larger, more powerful neighbor. With no other way out, at age fourteen she agrees to marry King Charles VIII of France, in order to save her country. Better to be a queen than a prisoner