Posterity
Francis II had a brief reign, becoming king as a teenager without experience, when the kingdom was struggling with religious troubles. Historians agree that Francis II was fragile, both physically and psychologically, and his fragile health led to his early death. The question of whether his marriage was consummated or not is still standing.
Francis II's depictions in movies are only as the husband of Marie Stuart, as a prologue to the biography of the famous queen of Scotland.
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Famous quotes containing the word posterity:
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
“Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)