Episode 291: Anne de Beaujeau

She wasn’t a queen. She wasn’t even regent in name. But for
nearly a decade, Anne de Beaujeu was the real power behind the
French throne.


The daughter of Louis XI, Anne guided her younger brother Charles
VIII through a turbulent minority, outmaneuvered rebellious
nobles, helped bring Brittany into the French crown—and laid the
groundwork for France’s centralization. Along the way, she built
a vast personal empire, wrote a survival manual for her daughter,
and earned a reputation as “the least foolish woman in France.”





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