Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 3 [Court memoir series]

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Title: The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume III. A History of the House of Valois
Author: Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Release Date: September 27, 2006 [EBook #3840]
Language: English
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MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS
MEMOIRS OF MARGUERITE DE VALOIS QUEEN OF NAVARRE
Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre
BOOK III.
HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF VALOIS.
[Author unknown]
CHARLES, COMTE DE VALOIS, was the younger brother of Philip the Fair, and therefore uncle of the three sovereigns
lately dead. His eldest son Philip had been appointed guardian to the Queen of Charles IV.; and when it appeared that
she had given birth to a daughter, and not a son, the barons, joining with the notables of Paris and the, good towns met to
decide who was by right the heir to the throne, "for the twelve peers of France said and say that the Crown of France is of
such noble estate that by no succession can it come to a woman nor to a woman's son," as Froissart tells us. This being
their ...