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Gilles de Rais was coming out of his lodging when a mother commended her ten-year-old son to his care. He did not answer her. His servant had already promised her that the boy's schooling would continue. Two years later, she was telling an investigator how her son had disappeared.
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Pregnancy kept Marie of Anjou at Chinon. It did not keep the king's government out of her hands. When Charles VII travelled to Dauphiné, his wife remained behind with authority to act in his place.
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Philip Augustus went down in the middle of his own battlefield, hooked from his saddle by the men of Renaud of Boulogne, a lord who had once been his friend and was now doing everything in his power to end him personally, in the mud, before the day could be decided any other way.
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She was seventy-four when the starving city surrendered. Her daughter had endured the siege with her. Both survived. Both were taken prisoner.