Louis XII, King of France

Her brother, who was the younger by two years, became François I, King of France , when Louis XII died on New Years Day 1515.

This novel is told in third-person narrative. The girl of its title is Adelaide, whom we meet as a child (her mother being dead) living with her melancholy father, Mr Dupont, in a lowly cottage...

Between 1847 and 1855 LSC produced several more biographical works including Jacques Coeur , the French Argonaut, and his Times (about a merchant of the fifteenth century), Memoirs of Mary, the Young Duchess of Burgundy

Also in this year, JP published another Tudor novel: The Thistle and the Rose (1963), about the English-Scottish union of Margaret Tudor , sister of Henry VIII, and her husband James IV of Scotland ....