King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens

PREFACE

KING RENÉ D’ANJOU AND HIS SEVEN QUEENS--yes, I stand by my title, and offer no apology to the captious and the curious.

René was the most remarkable personality in the French Renaissance. How many English readers of the romance of history, I wonder, know anything about him but his name? Of his “seven Queens,” two only are at all familiar to the English public,--Marguer...