Well located on the axis of the Loire Valley, at the time of an itinerant monarchy, between the Touraine stay of the kings and Brittany long threatening for the kingdom of France, the city of Angers received all the sovereigns, from Charles VII to Louis XIII.
They are thus Charles VII in 1424, Louis XI in 1462, Charles VIII in 1487, Louis XII in 1499, François Iis in 1518 or even Henri II in 1551 who landed, in particular. Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Médicis went to Angers at the end of their great “tour” of France, in November 1565. In 1598, Henri IV stayed in the city for a month, an outpost facing the last square of the Breton leaguers. Only François II and Henri III did not go there. Even the latter stayed there when he was Duke of Anjou.
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