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English Historical Fiction Writers:
Although
historians often cast the dismissal of her playmates in a harsh light,
Poissy was only a few miles from Saint Germain. The Four Maries often
visited the palace on weekends and holidays. They had not been exiled to
an austere convent in a backwater location. The convent school at Saint
Louis Priory provided a high-quality liberal education to its
aristocratic students. Even religious policies were flexible to a
degree. Marie Livingston, whose family embraced the new learning, was
encouraged but not forced to attend Mass. By the time the Four Maries
reached puberty, they were well educated and highly polished French
girls, ready to be integrated into the life at the French court.
Nevertheless, their place in the life of the Queen had been taken by
the Princesses Elisabeth and Claude, and their brother Francois, the
Dauphin.
By the time she
was eleven, the Queen of Scots might well have been homesick for her
mother, but there is no reason to think she missed or even remembered
the land of which she was sovereign. (Read more.)
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