The Marriage of Anne of Brittany

This history painting by **Édouard Toudouze**, produced around **1900**, depicts the marriage of **Charles VIII** and **Anne of Brittany**, celebrated at **Langeais** on **6 December 1491**. The scene turns into an image the resolution of the Breton crisis opened after the death of **Francis II**, showing the moment when the dynastic solution prevailed over English and Habsburg designs. It is not a contemporary witness to the event, but a later reconstruction that emphasises the political and symbolic significance of the union. For the reign of **Charles VIII**, the work illustrates the passage from a monarchy still marked by regency to a royal power now capable of imposing a lasting settlement on the Breton question.