The first two chapters of this study introduced the primary themes of this book; the acquisition and maintenance of gendered power and successful governance. Chapter 1 suggests that these were intergenerationally acquired tools of agency, power, and influence absorbed from within households through targeted “lessons” acquired via example, imitation, and the gendered voice of experience. Chapter 2 set these ideas against Foucault’s conception of the art or “game” of government, the “knowledge of all knowledges”; St Francis’s assertion and practice of maternal government; and Choinet’s exploration of rulership and governing in the Rosier dedicated to Anne de France’s unready younger brother, the dauphin Charles. This chapter pivots to the re-gendered work that I contend bookends Louis XI’s intentions and strategies with his commissioning of the Rosier, Anne’s Enseignements gifted to her daughter Suzanne de Bourbon, Louis’s only surviving legitimate grandchild. His commissioning of the Rosier grew out of an existential anxiety for his surviving legitimate son, the frail yet aimable dauphin Charles, the continuation of his House, justice and the safety and integrity of his subjects, and the integration and centralization of his father Charles VII le Bien Servi’s hard-won kingdom. Anne’s decision to pen her Enseignements grew out of a not dissimilar anxiety; she was widowed and middle-aged and her surviving child Suzanne’s future was uncertain. Early in her marriage to Pierre II de Beaujeu, in the spring of 1476, when Anne was about fifteen years old and Pierre some two decades her senior, she found herself pregnant for the first time. An archival document cited by Jean-Marie de La Mure, Louis XIV’s appointed historiographer, records this possibility in a donation to the couple dated 3 April 1475. The allusion to Anne’s putative pregnancy and the timing of this donation seem significant because Easter Sunday fell on 4 April that year and with it the start of the New Year; pointing perhaps to heightened Bourbonnais expectations of a renascence of its stunted lineage. This document is part of a suite of three very interesting documents testifying to the negotiations involved in an important territorial donation made over to the Beaujeu couple, extracted from Pierre’s eldest brother Jean II, duke of Bourbon, who had dithered and put the promised donation on hold for some considerable time:

Anne de France’s Enseignements

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2025年

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Zita Eva Rohr

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The first two chapters of this study introduced the primary themes of this book; the acquisition and maintenance of gendered power and successful governance. Chapter 1 suggests that these were intergenerationally acquired tools of agency, power, and influence absorbed from within households through targeted “lessons” acquired via example, imitation, and the gendered voice of experience. Chapter 2 set these ideas against Foucault’s conception of the art or “game” of government, the “knowledge of all knowledges”; St Francis’s assertion and practice of maternal government; and Choinet’s exploration of rulership and governing in the Rosier dedicated to Anne de France’s unready younger brother, the dauphin Charles. This chapter pivots to the re-gendered work that I contend bookends Louis XI’s intentions and strategies with his commissioning of the Rosier, Anne’s Enseignements gifted to her daughter Suzanne de Bourbon, Louis’s only surviving legitimate grandchild. His commissioning of the Rosier grew out of an existential anxiety for his surviving legitimate son, the frail yet aimable dauphin Charles, the continuation of his House, justice and the safety and integrity of his subjects, and the integration and centralization of his father Charles VII le Bien Servi’s hard-won kingdom. Anne’s decision to pen her Enseignements grew out of a not dissimilar anxiety; she was widowed and middle-aged and her surviving child Suzanne’s future was uncertain. Early in her marriage to Pierre II de Beaujeu, in the spring of 1476, when Anne was about fifteen years old and Pierre some two decades her senior, she found herself pregnant for the first time. An archival document cited by Jean-Marie de La Mure, Louis XIV’s appointed historiographer, records this possibility in a donation to the couple dated 3 April 1475. The allusion to Anne’s putative pregnancy and the timing of this donation seem significant because Easter Sunday fell on 4 April that year and with it the start of the New Year; pointing perhaps to heightened Bourbonnais expectations of a renascence of its stunted lineage. This document is part of a suite of three very interesting documents testifying to the negotiations involved in an important territorial donation made over to the Beaujeu couple, extracted from Pierre’s eldest brother Jean II, duke of Bourbon, who had dithered and put the promised donation on hold for some considerable time: