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presented by Anne-Marie COCULA-VAILLÈRES, historian, university professor
Through a series of failures, Pierre de Bourdeille, the youngest son of a noble family and nonetheless commendatory abbot of the venerable Brantôme abbey, was only a knight without glory, plunged into the bloody period of the Wars of Religion in the second half of the 16th century. However, he had the good fortune to live at the court of the last Valois kings, where he rubbed shoulders with some of history?s greatest...