Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 48
at any rate, was the least among hercharms. Showing an astonishing acquaintance,says Michelet, with books, affairs, and men, wellversed in politics at ten, and mistress of the FrenchCourt at fifteen, she ruled everything by her word,by the charm of her presence, which troubled everyheart. In this… … Owo ..^eend of cFtance 35 and finesse, she ended by falling into every snareher enemies spread for her. ^ Yet during the few months of her power inFrance, a power that has been too little recognised,no one could escape her influence, the Queen-mother no more than the rest. A little court ofpoets…
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