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Anne and Louis: Rulers and Lovers
by Rozsa Gaston
Book 3 in the Anne of Brittany series.
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By 1501 Anne and Louis have a surviving daughter, Claude, but no son to secure the crown. Anne favours a Habsburg marriage between Claude and the future Charles V, hoping to protect Brittany, while the French court increasingly supports Francis of Angoulême as both Claude’s husband and Louis’s eventual successor.
The dispute tests a marriage in which Anne and Louis are at once lovers, parents and sovereigns with competing duties. Their domestic conflict unfolds beside the partition of Naples and renewed war in Italy, where agreements among France, Spain and the papacy prove as fragile as the dynasty they are trying to preserve.
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