We drove to Langeais for the day. Langeais is pretty close to Tours but we wanted to spend the day here rather than stopping for a short time on the way to Tours.
Anne of Brittany married Chrles VIII here in a secret ceremony in 1491 that reattached the independent state of Brittany to the Kingdom of France. Anne was barely fourteen years old at the time. The marriage contract specified that she would have to marry Charles' successor if anything happened to him. He died shortly after and she did indeed marry his successor Louis XII. Brittany has been struggling to regain its independence ever since.
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