Chapter 1 introduced the significance of mutual love between monarchs and their subjects and the weight of duty and responsibility that fell upon those who governed as a consequence of their commitment to the achievement of this ideal. The “office d’amour” as a political virtue and an essential foundation of a monarch’s legitimacy to govern is also advanced by Aubrée David-Chapy in her magisterial study, Anne de France, Louise de Savoie, inventions d’un pouvoir au féminin. This “office of love” on which legitimate rule rested was a major preoccupation for most sovereigns on whose heads their crowns “uneasily” rested. Monarchs (and their advisors) understood the existential anxieties of those who ruled and governed, which is why we have such a significant and durable body of conduct manuals and treatises of lessons and advice from royal parents to their children, as well as other commissioned and non-commissioned works. For us, trying to make sense of and visualize a distant past and the people who lived there, they represent a rich and diverse resource with which to explore and develop our understanding of the science or “game” of premodern governance and rulership developed across Michel Foucault’s fifteen centuries.