Agnes Sorel: With Tawny

Death Is Hilarious

English - June 18, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 347 ratings
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In today’s episode, we’re taking it all the way back to 15th century France when Agnes Sorel, a lady in waiting from a family of minor nobility became the first officially recognized mistress to the king, inspired many artists of the time, most notably Jean Fouquet’s Virgo Lactan’s or the Nursing Virgin, and was the first woman to hashtag free the nipple.