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:
“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)
“Men of genius are not be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.”
—Robert Menzies (1894–1978)
“We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for this very originality of style, and that posterity will have reason to thank him for emancipating the language, in some measure, from the fetters which a merely conservative, aimless, and pedantic literary class had imposed upon it, and setting an example of greater freedom and naturalness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)