Angers parody of justice for the last Plantagenêt pretender to the English throne

The Plantagenêt component of the Accroche-coeurs ended on Sunday with a real travesty of justice regarding the terrible fate Edward Plantagenet faced in 1499 and for which Angers city claims compensation. The setting of the trial whose name evokes the finiteness of human destiny (the "Bout de monde walkway") along the Angers castle and the crowd gathered in that place around the figure of the last Plantagenêt pretender to the throne of England deserved maybe a little better. The English press agency Reuters had sent editors on the site.

After a long and a little bit confused conference by Franck Ferrand, history commentator on Europe 1, more on the Plantagenêt dynasty than the figure of Edward Plantagenêt himself, more on the political background than the circumstances of his death, the Angers lawyers took over... In absence of British counterparts (who could have been an English teacher giving classes in Angers), the local lawyers have demonstrated they could be actors...

It was impossible of course to believe in the seriousness of the claim and the chances of its success but was an explanation about the political consequences of that murder (because it was a murder) something unconceivable? Angers people interested by the Plantagenêt glory and fall will find consolation in a series of conferences at the Angers municipal institute about medieval Britain between September and November.