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Desmond Seward

British historian · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1935 to 2022 · aged 86

Desmond Eric Christopher Seward was an Anglo-Irish popular historian and the author of many books, including biographies of Henry IV of France, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Marie Antoinette, Empress Eugénie and Napoleon's family. He specialised in Britain and France in the late Middle Ages.

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