The Court of France, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from The Court of France, Vol. 1 of 2: In the Sixteenth Century, 1514 1559 N the morning of the 27th of January, I 514, a grand and solemn funeral pag cant issued from the Chateau de Blois, accompanying to Paris, and thence to the royal sepulchre of St. Denis, the body Of Anne Of Brit tany - the twice-crowned Queen Of France widow of Charles VIII., and wife of his successor, the then reigning monarch, Louis XII. The lying in state of the deceased royal lady, in the superb apartment recently. Added to the Chateau de Blois, has been described as a scene of surpassing magnificence and solemnity, ren dered more especially impressive by the youthful appearance of the queen and her singular beauty in death. No royal funeral had been hitherto witnessed in France approaching in splendour that of this much-loved consort of Louis XII., whose pre mature death, ou the 9th Of January, in her thirty seventh year, had plunged the king into deepest grief. Nor did the Father of the people mourn alone. For Anne of Brittany - the most distinguished of the queens of France - was much and Sincerely regretted, not only by the Bretons, who adored her and were inconsolable for her loss, but by the French nation generally, who evinced much sympathy with the sorrow of the king) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.