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La sage et belle Marie d’Acigné, dame de Canaples
À Édimbourg, au premier étage de la National Gallery of Scotland, se trouve un petit portrait d’une femme d’environ vingt ans peint par Jean Clouet (1480-1541). Cette jeune femme est Marie d’Acigné ou Assigny, représentée en profil trois-quart, avec un visage rond illuminé d’un beau sourire serein. Elle porte une magnifique robe de velours rouge […]
Scottish effigies in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey in Paris
Since the end of the 13th century, the realms of France and Scotland were officially bound by mutual military aid contracts that laid the foundations of the famous Auld Alliance. Many Scotsmen came to France to make war as archers and soldiers in the service of the French kings, or to make business in the cities of […]
Mary and Darnley, the beautiful doomed couple
Like the J.F. Kennedy murder fifty years ago, we might never know with certainty who killed Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, near Kirk o’Field house in Edinburgh in 1567. The latest exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, dedicated to the infortunate queen, didn’t bring […]
