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.
Read more about this topic: Francis II Of France
Famous quotes containing the word posterity:
““We are always doing,” says he, “something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.””
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“When posterity judges our actions here it will perhaps see us not as unwilling prisoners but as men who for whatever reason preferred to remain non-contributing individuals on the edge of society.”
—George Lucas (b. 1944)