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Charles the Bold. The Uncrowned King

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Charles the Bold, the Grand Duke of the West, is generally known to the Russian reader only as the antihero of French history. A dark figure, plotting against Louis XI and his attempts to unite the kingdom. He served as the prototype for the Duke from Pushkin's poem "The Miserly Knight" and is remembered for the phrase "Terrible age, terrible hearts." His image appears more gloomy on the pages of the novels of Walter Scott and Dumas père, and he is no less menacing in cinema. But what is the historical truth? The real Charles devoted his entire life to the creation of a unified Burgundian kingdom. He was a military leader, knight and politician who managed to put his homeland on the chessboard of international politics on par with the largest monarchies of Europe. He was the embodiment of his century - the brilliant "autumn of the Middle Ages."
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