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Anjou (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʒu]) is a former county (in the sense of being ruled by a count, from c. 880), duchy (1360) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of what, since the early 13th century, we know as western France. Its traditional Latin name was Andegavia.
Anjou was united with the English Crown from 1151-1199, when Henry II, and, in turn, his (third) son Richard the Lionheart, inherited the county, and thus themselves became Counts of Anjou. At its peak, the Angevin Empire then spread from Ulster to the Pyrenees. But Richard had no legitimate issue, so in 1199 Anjou passed to his nephew, Arthur of Brittany (the posthumous son of Henry II’s fourth son, Geoffrey), while the Crown of England passed to Henry II’s fifth son and Richard’s youngest brother, John. Count Arthur was taken prisoner by John in 1203, and disappeared in murky circumstances. In 1204, the county as a whole was in turn seized by France. Its status was elevated to that of a duchy for Prince Louis, the second son of John II of France, and remained as such until the Revolution. Today, Anjou corresponds largely to the present-day département of Maine-et-Loire.
Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite d'Anjou) (23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. She also claimed to be Queen consort of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. Due to her husband's frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, and thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, and caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
Actors: Philippe Duclos (actor), Vincent Perez (actor), Johan Leysen (actor), Miguel Bosé (actor), Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Claudio Amendola (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Ivo Canelas (actor), Marc Citti (actor), Grégoire Colin (actor), Barbet Schroeder (actor), Emmanuel Salinger (actor),
Plot: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.
Keywords: 1570s, adultery, based-on-novel, bourbon, catholic, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, christian-religion, decapitation, female-frontal-nudityActors: Dora Doll (actress), François Marthouret (actor), Jean-François Poron (actor), Nicolas Silberg (actor), Caroline Sihol (actress), Geneviève Mnich (actress), Hugues Quester (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Patrick Bouchitey (actor), Didier Flamand (actor), Philippe Clay (actor), Denis Manuel (actor), François Marthouret (actor), Josée Dayan (director), Yves Arcanel (actor),
Genres: Adventure, History,Actors: Alexandre Dumas père (writer), Maurice Risch (actor), Robert Dorfmann (producer), Louis Arbessier (actor), Nicole Desailly (actress), Nicolas Silberg (actor), Marco Perrin (actor), Mag-Avril (actress), Michel Creton (actor), Teddy Bilis (actor), Pierre Duncan (actor), Denis Manuel (actor), François Maistre (actor), Maria Meriko (actress), Marcel Champel (actor),
Genres: ,It never really mattered too much to me
That you were just too damn dull for me
All that really mattered was you were my boyfriend
And baby that's all that matters to me
~Chorus~
Let me love you down, even if it takes all night
Let me love you down, you know it's got to be so right
Remember when you drove me home from work?
I loved the way when you kissed me bye
All of your friends think I'm just too young for you
So tell them that I can do what girls their age can do
Aw babe
[Chorus] 2x
It never really mattered too much to me
That they were just too damn blind to see
As long as I can love you down baby just be my man
That's all that matters to me
[Chorus]
Let me love you down
Ooh
Let me love you down,
I know, I know I could
Love you down, down, Ooh
Love you down, down, no no no no no no no
Let me love you, I wanna love you, down
Let me love you, I wanna love you, down baby