First mistress of France

Journal "Gala Biography"

Karl VII since childhood was a painful and sickly child and the king began on a pure chance. He got a nickname winner and felt his own power only after meeting with Agnes Sorel, who became the first mistress of the monarch first in the history of France. "I climbed the throne by the grace of God, but realized myself by the king of the grace of beautiful Agnes," said Karl VII.

Arl VII was easily spoke of the power of a woman over himself, and this is impossible, derogatory for any male, and even thus the mona dignity recognition did not make a scandal only for one reason. The whole male half of the courtyard, from Archbishop to Lovech, converged in the opinion that the grace of excellent Agnes if they do not exceed, they are quite comparable to significance with royal regalia. The chest of its weight of the royal bowl, the camp of the scepter, the curls are gentle and softer the mountainous mantle. And the possession of all this magnificence is able to fulfill anyone to fulfill the power and greatness. To honor, beauty should be noted that none of the courtiers did not prepare personally make sure of their assumptions. Surely knew only Karl. Karl's Guusenish, the grace of beautiful Agnes aware of himself by Karl VII winner.
Mother nicknamed him. Isabella Bavarian, a woman's awesome, witty, but, alas, thoroughly devoid of maternal instinct. For nothing that he made 12 children. Children Izabo took over the same way, as if any versatility baked pies or knit stockings, or was engaged in any other routine female work imputed to her. Exactly with the same degree of inspiration and interest. Carlo fell a hopeless share to be born eleventh child in the family. The royal genealogical book dates this event on February 22, 1403.
The child was born sickly, with an exorbitantly long bluish neck and a surname nose of Valua, rather strangely looking at the infant peer. From weakness, the child could not shout, only published a throat some strange hissing sounds. "Gusnah", "said Isabella, and this nickname remained for Carl for long-to-many years. Such is the tradition - all the royal family men certainly had nicknames, and not always these nicknames were stolen their pride.
For example, Father Carl, Karl VI, wore the nickname insane. Alas. It was not a metaphor, but a diagnosis. At the age of thirty years, Karl Vi fell awkward from the horse, hit his head and since then periodically fell into the state of madness, namely, he imagined himself a fragile precious vessel and was afraid that he was afraid. For this reason, the father's acquaintance with his son was postponed for quite a significant time. It took place when the youngest Valua was fulfilled for four years. And although the doctors made a conclusion that the king is in a state of enlightenment, the meeting with him scared the baby to the hysteria. The trampoline has grown and since then held away from parental eyes. The vanity, ugly, sullen boy did not tessheil the parent heart, and there were no other reasons for his development and the cultivation of the king with the queen. The likelihood that the child will become a dofin, that is, the throne, was insignificant - here Charles were ahead of the older brothers. In a word, our hero had difficult childhood and very modest prospects for the future. This title of Duke Poitier did not promise nor glory, nor great wealth ...

It was stiffed for all interest in the boy showed Iolanta Aragon. The nominal queen of four kingdoms - Aragon, Sicily, Jerusalem and Naples - the Duchess of Anjuisa had to Karl Farm Relative, seems to be the grandchildren of his grandfather Charles V. Perhaps this woman, which the Chronicle of the Royal House of Bodigna Male did not otherwise like the "Himradest and the most famous of all Christian Princesses, "and really possessed unusual turnout, and maybe she just regretted the boy. But in 1413, when Carlo was only 10 years old, Iolanta met with Isabella Bavarian, which, who could not have tolerate, and signed an agreement with her, according to which their children, that is Karl and Maria Anjou, should marry . Before the onset of marriage, the boy came under the custody of Iolants.
Isabot was only glad to turn the events. By the time the spouse finally lost the mind, and it was very difficult for Isabella, but at the same time an unusual fascinating life. To understand how difficult and how fascinating, it is necessary to have an idea of \u200b\u200bthe political situation of that time. Against the background of the permanent war with England, the origins of which are in the X1-X11 century, in the French kingdom, civil war broke out: the batch of burgunions against the AR-Maniac Party. Both sides wished the same - power, that is, real power at the nominal and inactive king. Both were approximately equal forces. Both were looking for an ally capable of providing them with an advantage. And both found it in the face of the English courtyard. The British meanwhile had its own calculation. England, who had significant ownership at the time in the territory of France, dreamed of uniting both states under their crown. Therefore, the British alternately flimsy with Burgunonians, then with Armagnaci.
Isabella the same as the most close to the ridiculous king of the special, was interesting to everyone. And they were also interested in those, others, and third. And she was fond of not only political intrigues, but also love joy. Do children here!
In short, Karl moved to Anjo, to Iolanta. Future mother-in-law, not as an example of a native mother, paid a lot of attention to the development and education of the boy. Having found a tendency to humanitarian sciences and music in it, Iolanta did everything to develop his talents with the eradication of flaws. The case was worse. The fact is that Karl was, how would this hour they said, an absolutely unsportsmanlike boy. In the saddle, it was awkward, fencing is not elegant, I also walked first. But Iolanta did not retreat. She seemed to foresee that very soon he would be useful for him.
Although where she could know that in 1415, the elder brother of Charles unexpectedly, and a year later, he will follow the second dofin - both blooming young men. And now Isabella calls the heir to the court. But a 14-year-old teenager, even by the standards of the Middle Ages, is not quite a man, he still does not accept independent decisions. The decision accepted Iolanta and expressed it directly and simply, neglecting the etiquette, adhered in the correspondence of two noble Pers. "A woman who has so many lovers, children are not needed. Not for that I fed and brought up a boy so that you now worry him under our guardianship, how they worryed his senior brothers, or made the Englishman, as they became for themselves, or briefly crazy as his poor father. Try you to pick it up with me and you will not last, shameless you are. "

And she came to be even more shameless, which I could assume Iolanta. So much that was not afraid to publicly declare that Dofin is not the son of the king. Therefore, the rights to the throne does not have. Few, then believed Isabelle. It was obvious that she was lying in the interests of the British, who had already definitively decided on their sympathies and acted together with the burguignons. As for Karl, he seems to be resolutely indifferent - he will become king or not. But the mother's betrayal offended, once again reminded that he was unloved, unnecessary.
The aunt of Iolanta, meanwhile, sent a young man in Poitiers and told him to declare himself with regent. On his behalf, she made a dead appeal to the French people, which said that the ruling king is not in himself, his hand will lead to the Englishman Isabella, and the mission of the legal regent Valua in order to release the Fatherland from Inomers, to bring order in the kingdom and Provide it with a subject of a worthy life. The depletion of the British in the French land was so bloody and destroyed that the appeal was accomplished. Armagnaci moved together to the side of Karl.
However, to the legitimate coronation in Reims passed the whole eleven years. Much happened over the years. The enemy King Heinrich V died, the mad father of Karl died, the leader of the Burguignon died, Maria Anjou was killed by the wife of Charles, and finally, the most important thing - God sent him Zhanna Dark. The girl insisted that God sent it precisely, and he did it as if she was then that she, Jeanne, helped him to accomplish justice, that is, to defeat the British and spend Karl in Reims for legitimate coronation. There is a version according to which all this performance was resigned by the mother-in-law. It is likely that if only because Karl's nomading yard and his army were kept on her money. But this is not the main thing. The main thing is that Jeanne succeeded. On July 17, 1429, Carla crowned in Reims. And the Archbishop in all sorts called him "the anointed of the Lord", the "Son of the Most High", the "Shepherd of Peoples", the "right hand of the Church", "the first of all the kings of the Earth, superior in the nobility and holiness of all the kings of the Old and New Testament" and so on etc. And all the venomes and commoners, the princes of the church and the noble people of the kingdom knelt in front of him. What should Karl feel at that moment? A boy loyaded by the mother, just with the battle of climbed on the throne, did he feel the celebration? Or maybe relief? Who knows. But, according to the testimony of chronicles, Karl looked like a person experiencing inconvenience. And, along the rough childhood habit, then the case was in goose. He had a big, labored head, but the impression was created that the crown was great to him. In a word, he corresponded little to the epithets, which, according to the ceremonial, "gave the Archbishop. Karl Magnish turned into Karl VII victorious, but it seems not to realize himself as such.

A real love appeared in the life of the monarch. Karl, by the standards of time, was an already elderly man. It was already five or six children born Maria Anzhuy. The spouse did not differ in any beauty, nor the mind, nor the nipity of the Nrava, and Karl visited her bedroom, it is necessary to believe, exclusively from gratitude to the mother-in-law. Of course, at the court there were a lot of adorable women. But Karl, nothing that the king, was awkward in handling the ladies. It is known that he was very shy of his appearance, without reason, believing that the names of Valua in his appearance took some very caricature embodiment. At the same time, its aesthetic criteria regarding women were too strict and were determined by the traditional for the medieval knighting the cult of "Bel`s San Mersery", that is, "ladies who do not know the condesception." The medieval allegorical poem "Roman about Rose" gave quite clear attitudes on how this lady should look like. Eyes blue or green, pupils are excitedly expanded, the hair is gold, long to the hips, the skin of lily petals, the spout is small, straight, the mouth is also small and chubby, the mill is thin, the chest is small, but high. For the sake of such a woman, it was worth breaking the spears, to write sonnets and make other madness. But such a woman was not surrounded by Charles. At least, none of them corresponded to the knightly standard in accuracy. Something yes lacked in the register of its charms.

With a dutbonic meeting occurred under unknown circumstances. But it is known for certain that its organizer was the mother-in-law of Iolaant. It is her that they send the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a "flying squad", which they subsequently subsequently adopted the other August Operations. The idea was as simple, just as effective. Iolanta formed a brigade of beautiful, nonsense, and the most importantly - the devotes devoted to their benefactor, arranged them at the courtyard, and sooner or later they all turned out in beds of noble nobles. The girls thus received the opportunity to arrange their destiny, and Iolanta is operational information. Women were excellent spys, even the best Franciscan monks. Especially among them was distinguished by Agnes Sorel. Iolanta noticed her in the retinue of his daughter-in-law Isabella Lotaring, in which Agnes consisted of Freilina. The parents of the girl did not have a significant position at the court, no wealth. Father, Jean Soriet, held a modest post of advisor at the court of Circle Clermon, Mother, Katerina de Mistioles, owned an extensive, but dear estate estate. The main capital of the family was a daughter. Adorable Agnes probably could make a decent party, and in view of this perspective, the status of Freilina can be viewed as an excellent start for a 15-year-old girl. However, Agnes ordered the opportunities provided to it in its own way. She married she was in a hurry. Four years spent in the Palace of Isabella, became her universities. Agnes studied to speak expressively, sing, Play on the lute and harp, break up the male imagination with elegant postures and gestures. Possessing nature developed imagination and good taste, she knew how to dress so much more noble ladies in their luxurious outfits in comparison with her seemed sharpness. In those days, the knights were already brought from the Arab East to Pudra, Blush and Carmin. But few of the ladies of Light knew how to use it delicately. Agnes knew how to testify the chronicler Jean Chartier, even gave the lessons to his patroness. By twenty years, it took shape into a perfect beauty with an incredibly thin waist and a high neck, on which, like a cup of flower on the stem, sat the adorable head with highly polar gold curls, fertilized on the forehead and temples in the fashion of that time. Her face with infant round cheeks seemed innocent and at the same time vicious. So the artist Jean Fuka, who captured Agnes in the form of Madonna, sowing to convey this characteristic feature of her face, even accused of dangerous combination of religious feeling with erotic. In a word, Agnes was the perfect sample of "la La Lady San Mersi." And Karl, of course, could not not pay attention to her. This was counted for Iolanta. She had no need to spy for the son-in-law. But she wanted to influence the king. And the clumsy daughter was resolutely not suitable for such a delicate mission.

And so, Iolanta arranged a meeting of King with Agnes. Karl was so impressed that, despite the usual, immediately went to the attack. But the clever of Agnes skillfully portrayed a fright and, turning to Karl his disarmed femininity in the most spectacular pose, appealed to his Knight's honor. I had to retreat. For almost a month, the courtyard discussed the swollen veins at the temples of the king - a sign of extraordinary emotion. And once the king came out to the morning Mesa joyful. He smiled all day and all evening. Generously gave the jesters. I ordered a royal tailor of several new outfits. In a word, he behaved so unusual that this state was recorded by the court chronicle. Perhaps the chronicler seemed that Karl was crazy as his father. And Carl just fell in love. Very soon, this connection has become apparent to everyone. Karl, before indifferent to luxury, suddenly became a real scoop. Royal Treasurer of Jacques Ker discharged a precious Utrecht velvet and Venetian purple silk for him. In those days, men wore short clothes. So - the outfit Almost did not cover the hips, which, as contemporaries noted more than once, with thin curves, it decidedly did not decisively walked. But with the advent of Agnes Karl, it seemed to have stopped experiencing any complexes about his appearance. And in general, I felt the taste for life and all kinds of entertainment for the soul and body. Not a day, then new fun. Then the knightly tournament, then peers with trumperers and minstrels. And the main decoration, the center of all the assembly was invariously beautiful Agnes.
She adored the outfits and herself wondered the styles of their dresses. One of them, with an asymmetric neckline, fully exposed to the left chest entered the story called "The wonderful crushing of Agnes about his sins." And although the concepts of fashion as such in the Middle Ages did not exist, Agnes inspired the ladies for imitation, and minstrels to create poetic administrations who chant new stages:

If a woman is a fit
Herla and gentle skin,
Let it say that its tailor
Designed a neckline to her
That the shoulders boldly reveals
Chest to the limit shoals.
After all, if the chest is naked,
That attractive she.

And Gneso was cobwebs a length of six meters, although the queen itself was satisfied with five. She decorated themselves with diamonds, despite the fact that the Palace Protocol allowed such luxury solely by the Queen. But the protocol was revised due to the fact that the will of Charles Agnes Sorel received the official status of the favorite. Favorite is more than a mistress. Vassals are obliged to give her royal honors, she takes part in The political life of the yard, has the right to independently contact the royal treasurer to cover his needs, and the children born by her from communication with the king receive the generic name of the king. Indeed, all three daughters born to Agnes from Karl received the name of Valua. And Agnes herself received the Royal Castle Bote-sur-Marne ("Beauty on Marne") and the title of Ladies de Bota, quite appropriate to her captivating appearance, which Roman dad himself said that "this is the most beautiful person who can only imagine" .
However, there were people in which the spells of beautiful Agnes did not act. For example, Archbishop Jean Zhunwell Dez Orsen. As a spiritual mentor of the king, he repeatedly appealed to him, pointing to the wastefulness and most of his favorite and the courteous. Pious Dez Orsen found that the ladies of the yard, although they have noble origin, the view is now reminded "exhibited for sale painted donks." He was having sternly "hellish windows, through which their breasts look" and long loops, which are a lot of precious matter, and rightly noticed that "all these excesses, who are now at the courtyard, affect the increasing seen of the filters and taxes from the poor." For clarity, the Archbishop brought excerpts from the royal book of expenditures, in which any demand for the treasurer ended the asscription "for the needs of France." Crystal service with gold leaves - for the needs of France, dug out of the curtain and the ermine - for the needs of France, the lower shirts embroidered with gold - for the needs of France ... "What is the need for France in the lower shirts embroidered with gold?" - the Vladyka was pregnant. In response, Karl did not write without a call to his spiritual mentor: "If a beautiful lady has dresses embroidered with gold, she will have a good mood. If she has a good mood, I will also have a good mood. If I have a good mood, the whole of France will be a good mood. Therefore, France has direct need for wonderful dresses. " Of course, Agnes received and dresses with gold, and all that she pleases, and meanwhile, the mood of France was not very.

And the NGLICHAN was still hosted on French land. Pretty extensive, strategically significant territories remained under their control. The people are catastrophically beaten under the oppression of unbearable taxes. And the generous leans, Drackled by Agnes for the needs of the Church and the poor, did not reduce the folk hatred of the royal favorite, who seduced by the "Majristian King" from the True Way. It was unlikely that Agnes has defeated anxiety about the future of France, it was most likely, she acted for the baptism of Iolanta, but it was Agnes that Pokhudil Karl to change the Surko-shied with gold onto the lats and resume war against the British. Historians support the legend, according to which Agnes as if told the king of a dream, in which the brave carl made the liberator of France. But, waking up, she-de remembered that Rouen, Kan and Cherbourg still in the power of the cursed British, and this was filled with her inexpressible sadness. The accuracy of this legend can be subject to doubt, but it is known for certain that the king still went to the cast Normandy to start the offensive to the British. And it did it solely for the sake of the beautiful eye of Agnes. For the ruler of the era of the Middle Ages, Karl was surprisingly not militant and the harp preferred a sword. But Agnes had an amazing power over him. She could inspire him to any act, on any feat. And not at all because it possessed some particular qualities. Just it was his woman. For any man in this world there is a woman who is able to raise his spirit, to make it stronger. You just need to find it. Carlo was lucky - he found.

Agnes did not happen to celebrate the victorious completion of the century of war. She died three years before that a significant event for France. Cum has occurred a few days after Agnes was resolved by the fourth child. The girl was born weak - and the day did not live, but it concerns her mother, it was like she died not with her death. Perhaps her poisoned. At least Karl was convinced that this was the case. Why would it take and die and die a healthy blooming woman, who worriedly gave birth to this three times. And after all, there are evidence that before death, the poor thing complained on a terrible fire, devouring it from the inside, and her beautiful golden hair sat down from the head, like the petals of a riser rose ... Under suspicion, the royal treasurer of Jacques Ker and the eldest son of the King of Dofhin Louis, the future Louis XI, immediately fell. The first was listed by her friend, the second - the enemy. But their fault was not proved.
Agnes Sorel buried with honors worthy of royal personnel. The heart buried in the chapel of Notre Dame in the jum, setting on this place a luxurious tombstone from black marble and a white gramist statue depicting Agnes with prayer-folded hands in which her heart is concluded. The body was stubbered in a collegial church at the royal castle of a horse.
Shortly after the funeral, Karl brought to himself a cousin of Agnes Antoinette de Mie Leight-Lai. She was very similar to his deceased lover, but could not replace it. According to the evidence of chroniclers, still half a dozen beauties appeared very soon, "ready to try for the king, which was so tried for France." So little alone Karl gathered a harem that Sultan himself could envy. The content of the crowd of young depravants expensive did the treasury. Karl condemned for a breakdown and wastefulness. It is impossible to say for sure, but it seems that Karl was led by no irrepressible thirst for pleasure. He hoped in vain that many beautiful women would give him the feeling of strength, the greatness of the spirit who once gave him agnes.

"Her chronicler Jean Chartier considered the most beautiful in the world from all beauties. Olivier de la march recognized: "She has ever seen the most beautiful woman, and even the Roman Pope Pope II could not resist the mention that" she has the most beautiful face that you can see. "

She was destined to stay in the history of the first officially recognized royal favorite, the benefactor of the unfortunate and disadvantaged and, finally, an example of tragic sacrificial love.

The history of life is completely legendary. Some reproached her in waste, others saw the continuing Jeanne d'Ark in it. It is known the quatrain of the King of Francis I, in which she is attributed hardly by the main merit in the liberation of France from the British. He had a beneficial effect on the king, struggled with his beloved unworthy and cared for the replacement of senior posts by deserved persons. From the king had three daughters who received the title Filles de France.

When Agnes Soror, an outstanding woman of his era, is definitely unknown. Some are called her birthday 1409, others claim that it was born much later, in 1422. Her father, an approximate Clappa Claim, tried to be a daughter to become Freillina at the court at first Duchess Isabella Larring, and then the Queen of Maria Anjuic, the wife of the king of France Karl VII. Agnes was a little more than twenty years. Legends went about her beauty.

Many noble people, high-ranking ranks in love with the girl in love, and even the king himself was an exception. See you with Agnes, the king had favorite. Noted that Maria Anjuician knew about the passionate and temperamental nature of the spouse. Her husband was waged by a windy, immoral, cowardly and cruel, but was well thought out, formed and insightful.

Seeing once a blonde, blue-eyed Agnes, Carl was fighting her charm. She was so beautiful, "that he passionately wished her to excite and thought that his dreams could be realized only in a dream."

In the same evening, the king tried to declare his feelings of Agnes, but the young girl ran away with a frightened look, which was only a desire in the king. For several days, his swelled veins at the temples served as a conversation with the royal court.

Like a grave gazelle, she first avoided the king, but the enchanted Karl was persistent.

But once in the morning, observational courtes noted that the king had an ordinary look, and everyone understood: the beauty of Agnes no longer spent the nights alone. The wife of Charles Maria at this time was engaged in the raising of children - piquetious and with a face, according to Chatelli, "which even the British would catch fear."

A few months later, the whole courtyard knew the entire courtyard from Fromanto's love. One queen was in ignorance. But once in the evening, Maria Anjuica met the favorite of the king, walking along one of the corridors of the palace with naked breasts. This gave the Queen food for reflection. And Maria Anjuica installed observation for the king. The king was very careful. Chronicler Jean Chartier reported that "no one has ever seen Agnes and kissing with the king ..." Although no one doubted that there were secret intimate relations between them, because in 1445 the beauty felt that was pregnant ...

To emphasize that this is not a fleeting passion, the king has committed an unprecedented act, proclaiming Agnes and the official royal favorite. From now on, she had to be serviced as a princess, and she could wear the longest - after the queen - the train.

On the day of birth, the king was so worried that no doubt could not be - married treason was obvious. The angry and offended queen in tears spent several days, and then decided to calm down and ... become a girlfriend of mistress of the reigning husband. The queen has so closely with the opponent, which soon trusted her the most secret secrets, Gota Agnes of jewels and outfits. Women began to walk together, ride a hunt, discuss business in the country.

In 1445, Agnes gave birth to the king's daughter Charlotte, and then daughters Maria and Jeanne.

Karl VII decided to welcome the mother of his extramarital children. This wonderful idea was the most highest appreciation, which the king could honor the charming favorite. Not far from Paris, on the edge of the Vensenese forest, on a hill, towering over the emissions Marne, Karl had a small lock designed for the library. This area was called Bote-sur-Marne (in translation - "Beauty on Marne"), and the king presented this estate Agnes. She received the title of Ladies de Bota (title corresponded to her irresistible appearance).

Queen Maria

At the same time, they spoke about extravagant outfits invented by the favorite itself. Agnes, abandoning the spacious tunic hiding forms, began to wear long dresses, tightly fitted the body. In addition, she came up with the neckline, which shocked Queen Maria. Framely hiding one chest, she was elegantly exposed another. This new fashion outrageed most of the court letters who did not decide to follow the example of Agnes.

She is attributed to the introduction of such innovations as wearing diamonds of non-protected individuals, the invention of a long loop, wearing very free outfits opening one breasts; Her behavior and open recognition of communication with the king often caused indignation, but it said a lot to protect the king and her perfect beauty. But Karl as if he did not notice the outcomes of his mistress. He awarded her titles ladies Bote-sur-Marne, Vernon, Kameswiezer.

But this woman's heart was even more beautiful than her face. When she learned about deep poverty, reigning in the kingdom (France was granted at the outcome of the century of war), she began to sacrifice the poor huge amounts, help sick and cripples. It was realized that even her unparalleled generosity could not correct everything in the country ruffled by the enemies, she was subtle, in female elegantly forced a weak hazard king to remember his duties.

Poverty of ordinary French, the incessant centenary war, the inaction of the king - all this caused displeasure to the people. But for some reason the royal favorite was considered guilty for some reason. And Madame Sorel decided to act. Love in her King was ready for all for her favor and love. It was then that in 1429 the name of the brave girl Jeanne d'Ark, which he presented to the King Madame Sorel was known.

Once, when the king was in Normandy, Madame Sorel arrived at him. Its condition was terrifying: the genus began in Agnessee. Before that, she told the king about the conspiracy preparing against him, but Karl considered her the words of the excited feminine. Whether this plot had this plot or not, now it is impossible to say now. However, the approximates believed that even if the conspirators wanted to kill the king, they were frightened by learning that the bold favorite was brought to Karl.

A few days later, when Madame Sorel returned to Paris, she became bad. She died on February 9, 1450 and before his death, he regretted only one thing that in the last minutes could not see a beloved man. The king did not show the deceased. Her face was dismissed with death torments.

Now scientists are confident that the death of Sorell occurred as a result of mercury poisoning. Perhaps mercury was added to the food Silsel as a killer, but it is also likely that merge fell into the body of Soror unintentionally, since at that time it was often added to cosmetics.

Karl could not come to himself for a long time: he was confident that the lady of his heart was poisoned. At first, the suspicion of Palo on the Finance Minister, over which soon court came. For insufficient evidence, the accusation of the murder of the royal faryland was removed from it, and planted for embezzlement of the treasury. Then the king began to suspect his own son. Louis did not really love the father's favorite, and with Karl he had no best relationship. However, as the courties said, he could hardly go for such a step. The king gradually calmed down and ... preferred to forget about the died mistress.

The centenary war ended in 1453. The reforms that Sorel dreamed about, also ended. Everyone understood that they were obliged to be wonderful Madame Bota, Blond Agnes, a woman who changed the kingdom and inspired the king on bold solutions.

But Karl VII has already entertained with another lady: the favorite was the cousin of Agnessa - Antoinette. Such an influence on Karl, as her cousin, she did not have, but turned out to be an excellent mistress and organizer of entertainment, parties, balls.

Feeling in love with Antoinette and not wanting to part with her for a minute, the king married her in her friend and settled his spouses in the palace. Andre De Willemier knew about the intimate connection of his wife and the king, but I preferred to not pay attention to the treason of the spouse.

Carl spent all the time with the favorite. Soon he was already not enough Antoinette, and the insightful lover gathered several dozen beautiful girls of Paris around the adorable friend. The monarch indulged in love joy, and the rumor was sprawling in France that Karl Vii was crazy and betrayed terrible debauchery. Courtnic were outraged and indignant, and the king traveled around the country and collected new mistresses in his "harem". The queen with bitterness looked at the spouses.

The bad example of the Lord seduced by the subjects. High-ranking ranks, noble husbands, even the confessors also fell into debauchery and thought for honor to have at least a couple of concubines with them. Paris collapsed in the pool of passion and lust.

The love feats of the king, his rampant life led to the fact that Karl VII was slightly with a heavy illness. In recent months of life, remembering the terrible death of Agnessee, he refused food from fear to be poisoned. In the summer of 1461, the king died of exhaustion of the body.

The mystery of the death of Anise Sorell is revealed

Was it guilty of Jacques Cour? Certainly not. For the simple reason that Anise Sorel was not poisoned. For a long time, the irrefutable evidence of this was at least the fact that her daughter managed to live as half a year. By the way, among the doctors who have focused on the symptoms of the disease, described by the doctor's opening, it was a long time that the beauty from the beauties died as a result of dysentery, and the weakening of the body associated with the exhaustive travel from the horse in the jum, prevented over her Disease. Thus, Anise Sorel died a natural death, wanting to save her lover. It is quite normal, noble and quite convenient for all version.

It would seem that all. This can be put on this point. But in history, as you know, the point can very quickly turn into a comma ...

So it happened in 2004, when the French scientist was still able to remove the curtain of secrecy from the circumstances of the death of Anise Sorel. In any case, now the reasons for her death became absolutely clear. For this, a group of experts under the leadership of Philip Charles, a pathologist from the hospital of the University of Lilly, had to exhumage the body of the famous Frenchwoman. This operation was held in the town of Saint-Urs de Los, where the body of the former king's favorite was resting at the local church. The ceremony was held in the presence of numerous eminent descendants of Anise Sorel, in particular the Duke of the Orleans Prince Jacques de France and Prince Charles-Emmanuel de Burbon-Parm.

On September 28, 2004, the tomb of Anise Sorel was revealed, and her hair, seven teeth, skull and skin fragments were at the disposal of researchers. About six months, they studied them twenty-two specialists in eighteen laboratories: in Lille, Strasbourg, Paris and Reims. The unique experiment was headed by Philip Charles himself.

An analysis clearly showed the presence of a large amount of mercury in the remains of Anses, which ancient was used as a poison. Philip Charles said that it was Mercury that became the cause of a quick death, which struggled this woman in less than three days.

However, the Philip Schella did not doubt the deliberate meal poisoning: its content exceeded reasonable doses of ten thousand times, and the mistakes in the dosage of drugs could not be.

After receiving the opportunity in detail, for six months, to study the remains of Anise Sorel, scientists made a lot of refinements to the biography of this woman. First of all, it became clear that her year of her birth was between 1422 and 1426 (1409 accurately disappeared). Consequently, the death of the king's favorite followed in the age range between the twenty-three years of nine months and twenty-seven years old nine months.

Criminalists tried to recreate the face of Anyaz, whose captivating beauty, as noted even her enemies, became a legend. Studies confirmed that she was really blonde and gave birth to four children. The reconstruction of the person spent on the well-preserved skull also revealed an obvious similarity with existing images of a woman, in particular with the image created by the artist of the XVI century Jean Fuce.

The fate of the burial of Anise Sorel was restored. Her body was delivered to the horse, where he was buried without any jewelry (the king soon betrayed love adventures and preferred to give them to others). Despite the fact that Anise was a believer and made a lot of donations, churchmen did not want to lead prayers in honor of scandalous personalities, and they decided to move the tomb away from the altar.

Oddly enough, hated Anez Louis Xi did not allow him to touch her tomb. The same categorical was Louis XV, and here I changed his Louis XVI satisfied the petition of the church. The worst thing happened after the revolution: in 1793, the tomb was broken, and the urn was thrown in the cemetery. Anyway assembled and saved its contents. Then the prefect of the region General Levelier sent a monument to the restoration, and then placed it in the dungeon at the foot of the Donjon in the horse. According to his order, very bold words from the poems of Voltaire were decorated then FRONTON: "I am Anise. Long live France and Love! " In 1970, in order to preserve the tombstone in the royal castle of the horse.