A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Mary of Anjou

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MARY OF ANJOU,

Daughter of Louis the Second, King of Sicily and Duke of Anjou, was the wife of Charles the Seventh, and the mother of Louis the Eleventh of France. She was a woman of a very heroic character, and though insulted and neglected by her husband, during the latter part of their married life, she applied all the powers of her great mind to secure the crown to him. She died in 1463, aged fifty-nine. She was a devoted mother, and superintended herself her children's education.