12/24/2023 0 Comments Marion mosbet![]() These writers and musicians, as I stated in my book, were males. Growing up in the south of France, an area renowned for its poetry and music, she not surprisingly would be a leading patron of the arts, and her courts would welcome serious poets called troubadours. ![]() Teasing out the truth of any so-called fact can make you crazy.īack in 1977 I published a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who become the queen of France and later England in the 12th century. A fact is always liable to be a complete lie, or exaggeration, or-perhaps the most frustrating-partly accurate. The problem with any fact, of course, is the little matter of truth. ![]() After years of collecting countless scraps of information, we face the task of distilling our material into a reasonable narrative, with facts checked and double checked. Like all biographers I immerse myself in not only subjects’ personal experiences but also in the history of their times, all of which involves the careful selection of detail.
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