The High and Puissant Princess Marguerite of Austria; Princess Dowager of Spain, Duchess Dowager of Savoy, Regent of the Netherlands (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II MARGUERITE IN FRANCE Betrothal Of Charles VIII?Education Of "LA Dauphine" ?Louis XI?Anne De Beaujeu And Her Pupils In the ancient chronicles of the day we have a most interesting account of the carrying out of the Peace of Arras, when the infant Princess was conducted in solemn state to France and given over into the care of Louis XI. The most striking clause in this treaty was that "madite damoiselle sera en toute diligence, sans mettre la chose en delay, amenee en ceste ville de Franchise, alias Arras, et mise et delaissee es mains de monsieur de Beaujeu ou autre prince du sang commis de par le roy; et la fera le roy garder, nourrir et entretenir comme sa fille primogenite, epouse de mondit seigneur le dauphin." (The said demoiselle shall be with all diligence and without delay taken to that free city, Arras, and placed and left in the hands of Monsieur de Beaujeu or other prince of the blood commissioned by the King; and the King shall keep, nourish, and entertain her as his eldest daughter, wife of the aforesaid Seigneur the Dauphin.) This Monsieur de Beaujeu is evidently selected to receive Marguerite because he was the husband of the great Anne de France, the eldest and favourite daughter of Louis XI, who was now twenty-two yearsof age, and who was soon to be appointed Regent of the kingdom. We are told that the deputies of France came to Ghent to receive the formal oaths by which Maximilian, and others concerned, swore to keep the Treaty of Arras. Nothing has come down to us concerning the leave-taking between father and child, but apparently, on the demand of the embassy, Marguerite, barely three years of age, was escorted by a company of burghers over the frontier into the domain of Artois. Their destination was the pleasant town of Hesdin, with st...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II MARGUERITE IN FRANCE Betrothal Of Charles VIII?Education Of "LA Dauphine" ?Louis XI?Anne De Beaujeu And Her Pupils In the ancient chronicles of the day we have a most interesting account of the carrying out of the Peace of Arras, when the infant Princess was conducted in solemn state to France and given over into the care of Louis XI. The most striking clause in this treaty was that "madite damoiselle sera en toute diligence, sans mettre la chose en delay, amenee en ceste ville de Franchise, alias Arras, et mise et delaissee es mains de monsieur de Beaujeu ou autre prince du sang commis de par le roy; et la fera le roy garder, nourrir et entretenir comme sa fille primogenite, epouse de mondit seigneur le dauphin." (The said demoiselle shall be with all diligence and without delay taken to that free city, Arras, and placed and left in the hands of Monsieur de Beaujeu or other prince of the blood commissioned by the King; and the King shall keep, nourish, and entertain her as his eldest daughter, wife of the aforesaid Seigneur the Dauphin.) This Monsieur de Beaujeu is evidently selected to receive Marguerite because he was the husband of the great Anne de France, the eldest and favourite daughter of Louis XI, who was now twenty-two yearsof age, and who was soon to be appointed Regent of the kingdom. We are told that the deputies of France came to Ghent to receive the formal oaths by which Maximilian, and others concerned, swore to keep the Treaty of Arras. Nothing has come down to us concerning the leave-taking between father and child, but apparently, on the demand of the embassy, Marguerite, barely three years of age, was escorted by a company of burghers over the frontier into the domain of Artois. Their destination was the pleasant town of Hesdin, with st...

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2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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94

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978-0-217-62483-1

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9780217624831

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0-217-62483-9



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