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Anne de Bretagne (1477-1514) was married to two French kings: Charles VIII and Louis XII (a cousin of Charles VIII). By her death at 36 she had been pregnant 14 times. In 1498, she ordered 3 tombs: one for her children with Charles VIII (all had died at an early age - located in the cathedral), one for Charles VIII and one for her parents François II and Marguerite de Foix. Tours sculptor Michel Colombe made the tombs. This statue, a "virtue", was placed on top of the parents' tomb. This virtue depicts the Strength with a helmet extracting a dragon from a tower. The tomb itself is in Nantes.