Odd Facts From French History

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1. Charles the VIII, nicknamed the Affable, died after striking his head on the lintel of a particularly low door in Amboise castle in 1498. True False

2. When the French King Charles VII first met Joan of Arc, he had disguised himself as a woman. True False

3. Louis the XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X were all brothers. True False

4. One of the earlier French Kings, Hugo Capet, was so wise that he had his own son crowned as his successor in the same year as his own coronation in 987. True False

5. The last of the Merovingian Kings got the nickname Louis The-Do-Nothing. True False

6. The son of Louis X died when he was only five days old and got the name ... "John I the Posthumous". True False

7. During the One Hundred Years' War,one of the French Kings, John II, surrendered himself again to the English and died in a London prison, after his son had broken an agreement that he- the son- was to replace his captured father as a detainee of the English. True False

8. The famous Hundred Years' War was indirectly caused by Louis VII marrying the divorced wife of Henry II Plantagenet, the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine. True False

9. The son of Charles the Mad was ironically enough nicknamed Charles the Wise. True False

10. At the time of the Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815, near Brussels, the legal ruler of France was not Napoleon but one of the many Bourbon Kings named Louis. True False