why be the sheep when you can be the wolf ?

characters who deserved better meme [5/? and 6/?]: genevieve and maraud

“We should celebrate.”

“I am fairly certain the wine is gone.”

assassins of mortain

You are a blade that has been brutally forged, painfully hammered, and wickedly honed. You are steel, not poison. You are deadly, not depraved

Anne of Brittany duchess of Brittany and Queen consort of France (25/26 January 1477 – 9 January 1514):

Anne demonstrates that powerful queens, especially those who were entitled to rule their own territories, could act with some autonomy; her duchy endowed her with greater authority in France. She manipulated some political situations to her benefit, having set the terms of her second marriage negotiations to her advantage and extracted considerable financial and political concessions from Louis. In her second reign, Anne not only exercised greater political authority in Brittany and France but was also a more important political actor than in her first. If her first marriage proved to be an ordinary, rather miserable royal marriage, she forged an unusual partnership with her royal husband in her second. Most strikingly, she is the last pre-Revolutionary queen of France to have a political and personal partnership with her husband. But Anne failed to fulfill her most essential goals: She left two daughters but no heir for France; she could not bring about the most advantageous Hapsburg marriage for Claude; and her initial support and later opposition to her husband’s Italian campaigns did not alter his policies. But some of the policies Anne opposed were ultimately Louis’s failures, and she was a partner in some of his successes.