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This is how Isabella has been remembered. Certainly many of her actions were violent and selfserving. But then, so were those of the men around her. And the vitriol heaped on her by history draws on an image of female power as grotesque, savage and immoral. Over the next hundred years, England and France were almost constantly at war and out of this conflict emerged the woman that Shakespeare dubbed a shewolf. By 1444 the English were on the back foot and ready to make a truce. All hopes for peace rested on the young shoulders of Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Anjou. She would marry the English King, Henry VI, and seal a treaty between the warring countries. Margaret grew up in this impressive castle in Angers and her childhood here gave her a useful lesson in the limitations of royal power. |
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zhè jiù shì yī shā bèi lā zài rén men xīn zhōng de xíng xiàng, dí què tā de hěn duō xíng wéi, bù jǐn bào lì ér qiě zì sī. dàn huàn gè jiǎo dù, tā shēn biān de hěn duō nán rén yě zhè yàng, lì shǐ gè zhǒng jiā zhū zài tā shēn shàng de jiān suān kè bó, dǎo zhì nǚ rén zhǎng quán gěi rén yī zhǒng guǐ yì, yě mán hé xià zuò de xíng xiàng. zài zhī hòu bǎi nián nèi, yīng gé lán hé fǎ lán xī zhàn luàn pín pín, yě yóu yú zhè gè yuán yīn, cù shǐ shā shì bǐ yà huàn tā wèi" mǔ láng". zhí dào 1444 nián, yīng gé lán yī zhí zài zǒu xià pō lù, shì tíng zhàn de shí hòu le. suǒ yǒu hé píng de xī wàng quán dōu dān zài ān rú gōng jué nián qīng de nǚ ér, yà gé lì tè de jiān bǎng shàng, tā jiāng yào jià gěi yīng gé lán guó wáng hēng lì liù shì. zài dí duì liǎng guó jiān, dá chéng yī fèn tíng zhàn xié yì. mǎ gé lì tè zài áng rè zhè zuò jīng shì jué lún de chéng bǎo zhǎng dà, tā de tóng nián jiào huì tā yī mén jí qí yǒu yòng de kè chéng, nà jiù shì wáng quán yě yǒu jí xiàn. |