Appendix: Loches
3341fewLoches.jpg Agnès Sorel’s story is much too long to include here; google it, if you’re curious. Suffice it here that she was a famous and influential beauty of the 15th century, mistress of Charles VII1 and mother of three of his daughters.2

When she died (1449, in her fortieth year, perhaps of poison) the story’s a bit confused, but they say that the priests objected to the burial of such a scandalous woman in their church. The king said sure, they could exclude her, but only if they gave back all she’d given them. However that worked out, she has her own little funerary chapel here at Loches, where angels attend her statue’s head and lambs (that’s what Agnès means) its feet.
1Yes, the same weakling Joan of Arc chased to Chinon.
2Illegitimate half-sisters of Charles’s son and successor, Louis XI (son of Charles and his Queen Marie d’Anjou, doubtless a distant relative of ours).
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