Adventures in France (Paperback)

In cipher Bacon wrote that he expected his cipher story to be criticized and labeled a fraud. That has happened in many quarters but he could not have predicted that 300 years would have to elapse before the ciphers were discovered. Now, three hundred and ninety-three years later we have all the information we need through the internet to realize that the Shakespeare hoax has kept hidden from us the wonderful lessons Bacon spent his life writing about. At the age of fourteen he declared all knowledge to be his providence. He also desired to spread his knowledge in as many forms as he could but inheriting the throne from his mother was the one avenue that turned out to be so near and yet so far away. Unfortunately, most textbooks have yet to give in to the simple fact that Shakespeare was Bacon's pen name. This institutional ignorance is tragic because we all have been denied opportunity to learn from Bacon's life, though publicly seeming routine, teemed with high drama, intrigue, insight, hope and matching disappointment. The life he lead was shaped by the stark contrasts which is an elemental feature in all great biographies but none so stark and raw as Bacons. His life was the heroic ideal pitted against the cruelty of the times, a super intellect living amid preferred ignorance, a survivor of the royalty wars in which one half murders the other half, a visionary with clear goals about improving the lives of all people while struggling to improve his own life, and the massive outrage any one would feel who owns the ready potential to be powerful but helpless against mortal restraint. Orville Owen discovered Bacon's autobiography embedded in the Shakespeare's plays and other contemporary works and taught others how to find the lines for the right story sequence. When he was finished, Owen had collected five volumes of Sir Francis Bacon's autobiography which he preserved in its unaltered Shakespearean form. I do not think that Bacon meant for his Shakespearean style to be the last word in poetry because that style had the utilitarian function of camouflaging his auto biography. It is likely that Owen as well as Bacon expected a ground swell of excited supporters who would take up the cause of publicizing Bacon’s life as he had wished. But neither Bacon nor Owen could have anticipated the strength of the faith based anti-Bacon position. In order to make Shakespeare more reader friendly I have merely corrected syntax to modern usage and removed many redundant phrases and words and substituted archaic words with the nearest modern equivalent. Since words can have more than one meaning, for the sake of clarity, I choose the one that seemed most consistent with Bacon's intention. Sir Francis Bacon fervently wanted his story exposed to the world and would, I believe, applaud any style that reveals his passionate message. In the present story, Marguerite, de Valois probably suffered from Borderline Personality. The Duke of Guise probably was paranoid and Henry of Navarre was clearly depressed. King Charles and King Henry appear to have had Inadequate personalities. Francis Bacon was thoroughly controlled by the most powerful person in England. His mother, Queen Elizabeth, killed and cut the tongues of those she found out had said anything at all about her being a mother in order to protect her monarchy from his potential power (she kept him in near poverty). She and probably Robert Cecil destroyed all the documents she could find that even hinted at her having children. However, some survived, for example: In the public record is a reference to the queen appearing pregnant and a later a man was executed for talking about her children.