Excerpt from Œuvres Complètes de Voltaire, Vol. 3: Essai sur les Mœurs
La paix et la grandeur de Ia France furent ci mentées par le mariage de Charles VIII, qui força enfin le vieux duc de Bretagne à lui donner sa fille et ses états. La princesse Anne de Bretagne, l'une des plus belles personnes de son temps, aimait le duc d'orléans, jeune encore et plein de graces. Ainsi par cette, guerre civile il avait perdu sa li berte et sa maîtresse.
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