Old Court Life in Spain
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781417969180
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History; History - General History; History: World; Portugal; Spain; Europe - Spain & Portugal
First sentence: THE Princess Blanche de Bourbon, sister to the Queen of France, wife of Charles V., lived in the old fortress of Narbonne, beside the sea, in those romantic days when ladies' robes were sewn with fleur-de-lis and heraldic devices, dragons and coats-of-arms-wore pointed shoes with long chains to the waist, and high coifs and head draperies incredible in our eyes.