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Updated: May 28, 2025
Let us disregard prejudices, and examine facts. Even then, if all that is known of her were written, it could only bear to this rare personality the resemblance which a faint reflection does to reality. Agnes Sorel was probably born about 1420 or 1422, in the Castle of Fromenteau in Touraine. Her father, Jean Soreau, or Sorel, was Lord of Coudon, and belonged to the lesser nobility.
It is said to have been at this royal entry into Paris that Agnes Sorel or Soreau, who was soon to have the name of Queen of Beauty, and to assume in French history an almost glorious though illegitimate position, appeared with brilliancy in the train of the queen, Mary of Anjou, to whom the king had appointed her a maid of honor.
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