Note 250 — BOOK THE SEVENTH.
Reading edition
Anne, Duchess of Bretagne, was born on the 26th of January, 1476; in 1490 she was married by proxy to the Archduke Maximilian; but, preferring Charles VIII., she was married to him on the 6th of December, 1491; she became a widow in April, 1497, and on the 8th of January following she married Louis XII., her deceased husband’s successor on the throne of France. She died on the 9th of January, 1574.