Can't believe how quick this cycle goes! It'll be lambing
sheep back in the vineyards now and then pruners. This beauty is from Les
Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne, a book of hours commissioned by Anne of
Britanny, Queen of France, and illuminated by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 and
1508. Anne (25 January 1477 – 9 January 1514) married two kings consecutively,
Maximilien I of Austria and Charles III of France. She was the richest woman in
Europe. This remarkable book is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
as Ms lat. 9474. If you manage to lift it, sneak it through the back door and
I'll meet you just across Rue des Petits Champs, in Willi's Wine Bar. As long
as you let me fondle your prize for an hour or two, the Cognac's on me. Whatever.
In the meantime, have a month or two by the fire, then happy pruning! And
please put it back.
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