Monday, October 1, 2007



Saturday was my first trip site-seeing. I went with Joanna to see the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul and the Château des Ducs de Bretagne which are both in downtown Nantes. The castle is also a museum so we went to the Anne de Bretagne exhibit. Anne de Bretagne was born in Nantes an lived in the castle. She married Charles VIII King of France, and became Queen of France. He died after hitting his head on a door frame coming inside from a tennis match so then she married Louis XII who was to be the new king since Charles died...Anne became ill in the winter 1514-1515 and passed away. Anne was very intelligent and fought very hard for the independence of Brittany. At the time she was the richest woman in Europe.

2 comments:

martha brown said...

Hit his head on a door frame? ... ranks up there with hitting one's head on a light bulb.... hahaha -- just kidding.......

Robert Baldwin said...

Very funny...