Le Mans and Fontevraud Abbey united by the Plantagenets

French and English historians, such as Martin Aurell and David Bates, clubbed together to tell and shed light on this story from all its dimensions: from the empire's creation with the rise to power of Henri II to the formation of a fully-fledged European power and to the birth of England and its monarchy. They draw a map of mediaeval Europe in which French and English powers confront each other on the battlefields and in the falsely muffled atmosphere of the royal courts. 

With a print run of 4,000 copies, the book is on sale in the Fontevraud Abbey bookshop and the Maison du Pilier Rouge in Le Mans for €13.90.