For a long time now business, commerce and law have been main areas of study for students who wish to become successful in our modern materialistic society. Places like Harvard Business School were where so-called elite elements of human intelligence hoped to be trained so that they could then reach highest ranks of status and wealth. Well, things are changing. This is because these people are now being outsourced. Presently, companies can get same jobs done by people from India and Asia for one fifteenth of what it costs to rent an overpriced white collar American or European. The future no longer lies in these areas of financial process. The future successes now lie in ideas. The poor, starving, struggling artists are kingpins of tomorrow. Creativity is now being seen as desired quality for positive growth in any and every industry in our world.

Who cares about how good you know systems of finance? The question now is: How are you going to innovate and create ideas that further society and incite others to participate in your areas of interest? Artists are now being sought after by businesses to produce imagery that inspires both investment and consumption. Idea creators are desired for their ingenuity and ability to change ways in which society functions. We all know that only constant in life is fact that all things are in constant flux, perpetual change. So, how are you going to create changes that further society?

Here’s what I found: It is possible that Charles was lonesome for Bonne, while he was in London. He had just been captured (on October 25, 1415 specifically) by English on French soil and was being held prisoner in London or in London countryside. Charles was one of lucky ones. Just about every other French aristocrat was killed in Battle of Agincourt during 100 Year War between English and French for land in France dowered to Eleanor of Aquitaine (former Queen of France) when she married Henry II, English King. Charles and Bonne hadn’t been married long, about 5 years by 1415. He had been soldiering a lot during those five years, so they didn't see much of each other. A 100 Year War preoccupies a lot of generations of men folk.

There are three curious things, though, about these two you should know: (1) It was an arranged marriage whose purpose was to avoid further bloodshed between their families; (2) Bonne was 11 when she was engaged to Charles, who was 16; and (3) his father-in-law, Bonne’s father, had assassinated Charles’ father, Louis.

Maybe they loved each other; maybe not. I don’t even know if they ever lived together as man and wife, for she was only 11 when they married, 16 at time he wrote verse. In any event, Charles penned a poem on Valentine’s Day in 1416 and it has been retained for almost 600 years.

You may not know that a Duke is a Prince, and noble, highborn prisoners were prized when captured in battle. They were ‘cash cows,’ held for ransom by opposition, until their families could raise and pay money for their release. At that time, although most men folk fought for French King, France wasn’t exactly a country, then, and King didn’t assume any responsibility for ransoming his patriotic nobles or aristocrats. (No one cared much for non-nobles or non-aristocrats, except their families. But, they were never captured and held for ransom. More often than not, they were killed. They're enormous body counts in battles of old, serfs and servants.) This ransom was up to noble or aristocratic prisoner’s family, if they wanted their relative back home. (And they did want their men folk back.) His ransom in today’s money could be as much as $500,000 ($US). The actual amount in Medieval English crowns was 150,000 crowns. This sounds like an enormous sum. What with French loosing war, their King’s reoccurring madness, Joan of Arc’s triumph, then ignominy, a subsequent economic depression, Black Plague, and Charles’ family having to pay his upkeep all those years, (plus lots of other things) it took his family 25 years to get money and treaty agreement together to turn him over.