Word: beaujeu
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...royal patrons, who liked to identify themselves with famous forebears or Biblical characters, the artist worked out his scenes as a series of allegories. In the main scene, Charles is shown as a monarch of France, and the lady with crossed arms before him is his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, who ruled as regent from Louis XI's death in 1483 until Charles came of age. But the scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles' illustrious...
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