Henry Bordeaux Quotes

Why not stop awhile? Your record is pretty good; you might form younger pilots, and in time go back to your squadron." "Yes, and people would say that, hoping for no more distinctions, I have given up fighting." "What does it matter? Let people talk, and when you appear in better condition they will understand...you will admit that human strength has its limits." "Yes," Georges interposed, "a limit which we must endeavor to leave behind. We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything.

queenly heads on churches of this period in the area – at Langon’s Notre-Dame du Bourg, heads from the south wall of the choir are frequently said to represent portraits of Eleanor and Henry. But others exist at Saint-Andre in Bordeaux and in Notre-Dame de Saintes, where Eleanor’s aunt was abbess.

He suggested removing or exterminating the inhabitants of the city of Bordeaux and replacing them with a more compliant populace transplanted from another part of France. To Henry’s credit he refused to countenance this idea, but the Constable’s abhorrent methods of punishment could not fail to taint the King in this, the only serious uprising of his brief reign.