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🗓️ 14 May 2024
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May 14, 1643. A four-year-old prince ascends to the throne of France, beginning a decades-long reign that will change the country forever.
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0:10.0 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's May 14th, 1643 at a royal residence near Paris, France. Queen Anne snaps |
0:32.3 | snaps awake at the sound of church bells in the distance. |
0:35.9 | Takes a moment for the 43-year-old to remember where she is sitting in a chair next to the |
0:40.8 | bed of her husband, King Louis the 13th of France. |
0:44.0 | Although Louis is two years younger than Anne, his health is failing, |
0:48.0 | and doctors have predicted that his death is imminent. |
0:50.0 | Anne has sat in vigil by Louis's bed for days, but she's so exhausted she must have drifted off to sleep. |
0:57.0 | Ann has more to worry about than just her husband's illness. |
1:01.0 | Their eldest child, who is also named Louis, is next in line to |
1:04.8 | the throne, but he's only four years old. And this is not a time for a boy king. |
1:09.3 | France is nearly out of money and the country's nobles have spent the last few decades either fighting |
1:15.2 | among themselves or quarreling with the king. |
1:18.3 | It's such an unstable situation that Anne fears an ambitious noble will attempt to seize the throne after her husband is gone. |
1:26.4 | She dips a cloth in a bowl of water and holds it to King Louis's forehead. |
1:30.8 | It seems to revive him a little. |
1:33.0 | He mutters weekly and lifts his head off the bed as though grasping for something. |
1:37.0 | Anne puts her ear close to his mouth to make out his words. |
1:41.0 | He's asking for his sword. and smiles sadly and strokes Louis's forehead. |
1:46.2 | Her husband has no need for a weapon now, but Anne fears her son might soon. |
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