• Anne of France (or Anne de Beaujeu; 3 April 1461 – 14 November 1522) was a French princess and regent, the eldest daughter of Louis XI by Charlotte of Savoy.
  • Anne Of France was the eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy, who exercised, with her husband, Pierre de Bourbon, seigneur de Beaujeu...
  • Anne of France had been the dominant party in the Beaujeu marriage. When Pierre died in 1503, Anne remained administrator of his Bourbon lands...
  • I found myself remembering her words as I began translating Anne of France’s lessons for her daughter, Suzanne of Bourbon.
  • Anne of France had been the dominant party in the Beaujeu marriage and was a competent administrator.
  • Anne of France’s lessons for her daughter are teachings of pure woman: The world of the Lessons is curiously but significantly free of male control.
  • In 1488 Pierre de Beaujeu had succeeded to the Bourbonnais, the last great fief of France. He died in 1503, but Anne survived him twenty years.
  • “..the true image of King Louis, her father” Anne “governed him [Charles VIII] so wisely and virtuously that he came to be one of the greatest kings of France.”
  • A scenario where Anne of France's son Charles of Clermont survives to adulthood and maybe marries Anne of Brittany perhaps.