All Posts Tagged With: "provence"
Queen For (more) Than a Day – Part Three
Time to get out your hankies as the Queen for More Than a Day – Part Three takes center stage. (earlier, but not fantastically happy events may be found in PART ONE and PART TWO.) As my faithful will recall from previous spine tingling, on-the-edge-of-your-seat installments, Anne now seemed to be between the proverbial “rock and […]
5Apr2019 | Bicycle Gourmet | 31 comments | Continued
Queen for More Than a Day – Part Two
DA BG’s faithful, who’ve read PART ONE of the fantabulous Story of the The Queen for More Than a Day will remember that she made the wise (and possibly only decision) to marry the guy that had just conquered her country. He being Charles 8. This union, for all it’s elaborate pomp and ceremony […]
22Mar2019 | Bicycle Gourmet | 34 comments | Continued
Queen for (more than) a Day – Part One
The story of the Queen For More Than a Day is a unique slice of French History. Which, as you may remember from THIS POST pretty much takes the cake(with the cherry on top) in the Historical Uniqueness Sweepstakes. The Queen in question was able to accomplish something no other lady of her day […]
8Mar2019 | Bicycle Gourmet | 32 comments | Continued
absolutely megan.....it really underscores the fact that women in those days were expected to be "baby machines."