Word: mirebeau
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...Eleanor capped her career by a military triumph. Besieged in the castle of Mirebeau by the Franks, the wily old queen so bemused the French with negotiation that every man Jacques of them fell captive to her son John, Richard's successor,* whom she had secretly called to her aid. Two years later, as John let her continental lands slip through his fingers, Eleanor quietly died. She lies at Fontevrault, between Henry and Richard. The effigy on the tomb of the greatest and worldliest woman of her time shows a figure peacefully perusing a book-which...
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