Instead, was it lost in those mountains when Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499?

Unless the legend that Breton fisherman found The Grand Banks long before Cabot's English-funded voyage were true. What if Anne of Brittany desired that her court painter document the claims of the people of her former home and by her association, the French? The diplomacy required of Anne, who was both Queen of France and reigning Duchess of Brittany, was not unusual in those times of warring City states. And, as a foremost patron of the making of illuminated manuscripts, she owned the press, so to speak.

In her home, pondering her responsibility for a manuscript that she had inadvertently acquired, Black curator Sido Frazier showed her boyfriend Tyrone, who often sought the location of secret places to fish in the Sierras, a slide of the image of the miraculous abundance of fishes.