Claude of France made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Claude of France as Duchess of Brittany; queen consort of France (1499-1524).
Claude of France was born at Romorantin-Lanthenay in 1499. Her recorded nationality is France.
This was the period in which observation began to outrank inherited authority, and printing let work reach readers who would never meet its author.
She worked as politician.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Claude of France died in 1524, aged 25. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as politician
