Posterity
Francis II had a brief reign, becoming king as a teenager without experience, when the kingdom was struggling with religious troubles. Historians agree that Francis II was fragile, both physically and psychologically, and his fragile health led to his early death. The question of whether his marriage was consummated or not is still standing.
Francis II's depictions in movies are only as the husband of Marie Stuart, as a prologue to the biography of the famous queen of Scotland.
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Famous quotes containing the word posterity:
“Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;—and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in its totality, in its structure: posterity discovers it in the stones with which he built and with which other structures are subsequently built that are frequently better—and so, in the fact that that structure can be demolished and yet still possess value as material.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
““We are always doing,” says he, “something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.””
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)