Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast. I'm your host, Heather Tusco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe it's a

pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being in greater touch with

our own humanity. So this is episode 67, and we're going to start to talk about France and

foreign policy. So I've been wanting to do some episodes on France for a while. If you're a long time

listener, you will remember that I did several episodes on Spain around this time last year. And so now I

wanted to take a look at the relationships with France. And before I get started, just a couple of

reminders. First, please check out the Agora

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So as I said, for right now, I want to talk about foreign policy specifically around France.

And I want to trace the relationships of all of the

different Tudor monarchs with France, starting with Henry Tudor, Henry the 7th, and ending with

Elizabeth. This episode is going to be a little bit shorter than the other ones and the next week

because I'm focusing just on Henry the

seventh and I'm looking at overall foreign policy. And then next week we're going to look at

Henry the 8th and then the episode after that, we're going to look at Edward and Mary in one episode

and then Elizabeth is going to get her own. So we're going to do four episodes

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