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Many Napoleonic Figure Pictures (Part 2/?)

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This stunning book was a gift from Francois I to his niece, Jeanne d'Albret.

This tiny handwritten prayer book (8.5 x 6.5 cm) is decorated with sixteen full-page painted illustrations and numerous illuminated initials. It can be dated thanks to the date 1532 that appears in its ornamentation.

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On Friday the 7th instant the King [Henry VIII] left Greenwich and crossed to Calais. It is said he goes to terminate the divorce, and espouse Marchioness Anne [Boleyn]; but one of the doctors who wrote in favour of his Majesty, declares that he will take for wife the daughter of the most Christian King [Madeleine of Valois, daughter of François I of France], and give the Marchioness [Anne Boleyn] in marriage in France, so as to unite himself with the Pope [Clement VII] and satisfy the Emperor [Charles V]; and for this purpose the Bishop of Langres [Claude de Longwy de Givry], who had been to the Emperor, came hither. 

On a rumour that Henry VIII, upon divorcing Katharine of Aragon, was to set aside his plans to marry Anne Boleyn and instead wed Madeleine of Valois, and wed Anne Boleyn to a Frenchman.

Translated excerpt from a letter by Carlo Capello to the Signory of Venice, October 1532.

From the Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 4, 1527-1533, edited by Rawdon Brown, published 1871.

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Mysterious Cities of Gold S04E18

"Beyond the Mirror"

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Henry VIII - King of England

Henry VIII – King of England

Henry VIII by Hans Eworth after Holbein England’s most famous (or infamous) king, Henry VIII, was born on June 28, 1491 at Greenwich Palace. The second surviving son of Henry VII and the Yorkist princess, Elizabeth of York, he would reign as the second Tudor monarch. Henry received a classical humanist education and his father endowed him with the titles Duke of York in 1494 and Duke of Cornwall…

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Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France,

Credit: Marla Norman

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From the end of Francis I's reign, the lever had consisted of three stages. First, when the king 'prenait sa chemise' ('took his shirt'), at which point the great nobles entered the room. Next, when the king attended 'aux affaires' ('to affairs of state'), all those who were not members of his council would leave the room (or were meant to do so). Finally, when the king 'était prest a sortir' ('was ready to go out') in order to attend Mass, those who had been excluded from the council meeting would return to the chamber in order to provide the king with a fitting escort. In 1578, the ceremony became more complicated when a further stage was added. After the taking of the shirt (Act I) and the affairs of state (Act II), the king remained in his cabinet (closet) and asked for his collation (light repast), which brought a group of people into the room (Act III) before he returned to his chambre (chamber) (Act IV) to ask or his cape and sword, a cue which occasioned a last move on the part of the courtiers. This move took place not only in the chambre (chamber), but also -- and this is the novelty -- in the antechamber. Here, we can see the beginnings of the curious ballet of courtiers which was to become one of the features of etiquette at Versailles: the successive entrées (entrances) to the king's lever.

Monique Chatenet (trans. Valerie Worth-Stylianou and R. J. Knecht), “Etiquette and Architecture at the Court of the Last Valois,” in J. R. Mulryne and Elizabeth Goldring, Court Festivals of the European Renaissance (pp. 90-91)

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Today’s photo with the most hits - taken in the Sainte Chapelle of the Chateau of Vincennes: a salamader - emblem of Francois I.