. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. 1413 OUND Marie dAnjou and Charlotte de Savoie, wives of Charles VII. and Louis XL, partly from their own personality and partly from the circumstances amidst which they were placed, so much less interest gathers than around the two Queens who precede or the one who follows them, that I have preferred to pass over their reigns, and to conclude this volume with a sketch of the more interesting character and eventful life of Anne de Bretagne, whose death closes the annals of the early Queens of the house
. Pictures of the old French court; Jeanne de Bourbon, Isabeau de Bavière, Anne de Bretagne. 1413 OUND Marie dAnjou and Charlotte de Savoie, wives of Charles VII. and Louis XL, partly from their own personality and partly from the circumstances amidst which they were placed, so much less interest gathers than around the two Queens who precede or the one who follows them, that I have preferred to pass over their reigns, and to conclude this volume with a sketch of the more interesting character and eventful life of Anne de Bretagne, whose death closes the annals of the early Queens of the house of Valois. Marie was the granddaughter of Louis, Due dAnjou, the second, handsomest, and 299. 300 PICTURES OF THE OLD FRENCH COURT [1463 perhaps worst of the sons of King Jean. Althoughshe was exceedingly beautiful, and in many waysgifted, she had no influence with Charles VII.,whom she had married as a child, when, his elderbrothers being alive, there appeared no prospectof his becoming King. After his accession he con-stantly neglected her for Agnes Sorel and othermistresses. She seems not to have been wantingin judgment or capacity, and under different cir-cumstances might have made an excellent queen;but her idea of duty was the submission of a slave,and her gentle, saintly character was more fitted forthe cloister than the throne. She was the only humanbeing her son, Louis XL, really loved,1 and wouldnever oppose, and her death soon after his accessionto the throne was considered a public calamity. Shehad twelve children, of whom seven died young. Tierce en chef,au. 1 ^ de buzuUs de huitpieces, pour Honi>rie . Au 2. feme de France au tomb el detrois pendan
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