The sole heir of her father, Francis II, Duke of Brittany, Anne, born in 1477, ascended the throne of Brittany in 1488 at the age of eleven. Having married by proxy in 1490 to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, the young Duchess of Brittany was forced to abandon him in order to marry the conqueror of her duchy, King Charles VIII of France, the following year. The political marriage, against all expectations, turned into a union of great love. After the unexpected death of Charles (1498), she remarried her late husband's successor, Louis XII, but not before receiving guarantees of the autonomy of Brittany, of which she again became ruler. As Queen of France, Anne, however, always defended the interests of her homeland, although she helped her two spouses govern the state during their absence from the country. Intelligent, persistent, refined, she added brilliance to the life of the royal court and contributed to the emergence of Renaissance art in France, including the transformation of the castles of Nantes, Amboise and Blois, where she died in 1514. The author introduces us to the life of the incredible personality of the queen, often accused of remaining more Breton than French.