Category: Biographies
King René’s titles--His character--A beau-ideal Prince--His occupations--His work as an artist--Visits to Italy--Scrivani--“The Burning Bush”--“Souls in Purgatory”--“La Divina Commedia”--“St. Madeleine preaching”--“Preces Præ”--“Pas d’Armes”--“Livres des Heures”--René’s litera...
There are roses at Christmas as well as at midsummer, and although the pale single blossoms of the winter festival have not the fragrance of the floral queens of the month of Ma...
17. CHAPTER VIII“Margaret of Anjou was the loveliest, the best-educated, and the most fearless Princess in Christendom!” High praise indeed, but not more than her due, and universally accorded...
13. CHAPTER IVChild-marriage was a distinguishing mark of the Renaissance, but its fashion in the Sovereign States of France was very much more commendable than its prototype in Italy. In the...
15. CHAPTER VI“The little Queen of Bourges,”--so called partly in derision, partly in pity,--but all the same one of the noblest and best Queens who ever shared the sovereign throne of France...
16. CHAPTER VII“Like Queen Giovanna” was, alas! a common saying in the Two Sicilies what time Giovanna II. was Queen of Naples. A term of immeasurable reprobation, it implied the stripping of...
11. CHAPTER IIThe Queen was in labour, and shivering groups of robust citizens and sturdy peasants were gathered in front of the royal castle of Zaragoza, eagerly awaiting the signal of a hap...
14. CHAPTER V“Give me Duke René de Barrois, the noble son of good Queen Yolande, to guide me into France.” The request was made by a simple village maiden aged not more than seventeen years,...
12. CHAPTER IIIA royal corpse reposed upon the state tester bedstead within the great Hall of Audiences in the enceinte of the Castle of Angers, and a royal widow knelt humbly at a prie-dieu a...
10. CHAPTER I“René, King of Jerusalem, the Two Sicilies, Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica; Duke of Anjou, Barrois, and Lorraine; Count of Provence, Forcalquier and Piemont,” s...
9. CHAPTER IXRoses--“December” and “May”--A famous House--The Queen of Beauty--All in love with Jehanne--The champion’s crest--A tournament banquet--The Grand Prix--René struck with Jehanne-...
8. CHAPTER VIII“The loveliest Princess in Christendom”--A storm-rocked cradle--A child’s kiss--Troubadours and glee-maidens--An eligible suitor--The love of all the boys--Neglected education--...
6. CHAPTER VI“The little Queen of Bourges”--A master-stroke--A lovely bride, an ill-looking groom--An evil mother’s influence--Three fair witches--Yolande’s prestige--Woman’s power in France...
2. CHAPTER IIA Queen in labour--Natural children--Princess Juanita--“La Gaya Ciencia”--Troubadours--Iolande de Flandres--Bar-le-Duc--Highwaymen--Recruits--Fêtes galants--Court of Love--Juan...
3. CHAPTER IIIRoyal mourning--Cardinal Louis de Bar--Yolande a constitutional Sovereign--The Duke of Burgundy--Matrimonial alliances--Tournaments--Princess Margherita di Savoia--Louis III. fi...
4. CHAPTER IVChild marriages--“The Pride of Lorraine”--A mailed fist--Duchess’s bare feet--Satin skin--Cardinal matchmaker--Ten considerations--Woman’s wit supreme--A charming boy--Jean “san...
7. CHAPTER VII“Like Queen Giovanna!”--Anjou succession in Naples--A lover suffocated--King Ladislaus--Many suitors--Hard to please--A rare quality--Marriage ring torn off--Louis d’Anjou’s adv...
5. CHAPTER V“Give me René!”--Village of Domremy--Village feuds--A busy mother--A weird accouchement--Le Bois Chènus--Voices--St. Michael--Mad Jehanne--A coarse kirtle--She touched the hilt-...
1. CHAPTER IKing René’s titles--His character--A beau-ideal Prince--His occupations--His work as an artist--Visits to Italy--Scrivani--“The Burning Bush”--“Souls in Purgatory”--“La Divina C...