Charles VIII Of France
Charles VIII, called the Affable, French: l'Affable (30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. Charles was a member of the House of Valois. His intervention in Italy initiated the long series of Italian Wars which characterized the first half of the 16th century.
Read more about Charles VIII Of France: Childhood and Youth, Marriages, The Italian War, Death, Legacy, Issue, Representations in Popular Culture, Ancestry
Famous quotes containing the words viii and/or france:
“For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm VIII (l. VIII, 5–6)
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
—Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)