English: Château de Dampierre, near Saumur
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Title: The life and times of Margaret of Anjou, queen of England and France; and of her father René "the Good," king of Sicily, Naples, and Jerusalem
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hookham, Mary Ann
Subjects: Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482 René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, 1409-1480 Anjou, House of
Publisher: London : Tinsley brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in much peril and disgrace. Queen Margaret fell a victim to disappointment andgrief. While brooding over her unhappy fate, onemight imagine the bitter words which would escapeher lips— Who sues, who kueels, who says God save the Queen ? Where be the bending peers that flatterd thee ? Where be the thronging troops that f ollowd thee ? Decline all this and see what now thou art : For happy wife, a most distressed widow ; For joyful mother, one that wails the name ; For Queen, a very caitiff,—crownd with care.* The decline of Queen Margaret has been well pour-trayed by the graphic pen of one old author, who says, Her blood, corrupted by so many sombre emotions,became like a poison, which infected all the parts that it should nourish ; her skin dried up, until itcrumbled away in dust; her stomach contracted, and her eyes, as hollow and sunken as if they had been driven into her head, lost all the fire, which had, for so long a time, served to interpret the lofty senti- * Shakespeare.
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MAEGAEET OF ANJOU. 371 ments of her soul.* AVhat a picture of the oncebeautiful Queen Margaret! This unfortunate heroine died of grief, at the Chateau 1432.de Dampierre, near Saumur, at the age of fifty-three, J^Jjj:on the 25th of August, 1482.1 Godani mi ^ ■ r 1 -rt • i Faultier i he mortal remams ot this rrmcesswere transported Hume:to the magnificent tomb of the good King Rene, ^^^^■*-her father, in the Church of St, Maurice, at Angers ;but there was no epitaph, or inscription to her memory.The deficiency in this respect was, however, in somemeasure compensated by an annual ceremony per-formed there. Every year, at the feast of All Saints,the Chapter of St. Maurice, after vespers for the dead,perform a semicircular procession around the tomb,singing a subvenite for the unhappy Queen.:); Twenty-three days before her decease, Queen Mar-garet confirmed by her will, dated August the 2nd,1482, the conveyance of all her rights to her fathersterritories, to the King of France, Louis
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