From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The era of Charles VII (r. 1422–61) might look to us like an age of faith and chivalry, but for the people who lived through it, the situation did not start out so promising. Charles’s father, sixth of that name, went mad one too-hot day, and drifted in and out of psychosis for much of his life. As the Hundred Years’ War raged on…
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