Catherine de Médicis
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The real power behind the throne during this period was their mother, Catherine de Médicis.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
He was specially known as Procureur-général to Catherine de Médicis; but, as he himself said, he wore “a soldier’s coat as well as a lawyer’s robe.”
From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
In his "Étude de Catherine de Médicis," Balzac speaks of Madame de Sauve, and I am sure she must have lived in the Place des Vosges.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
Nor is such Jesuitism incompatible with pleasing manners, amiability of temper, and great intellectual radiance; it equally marked, I can fancy, Jezebel, Cleopatra, and Catherine de Médicis.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John
The others support merely a gallery, called by our guide the ballroom of Catherine de Médicis, ending in a small theatre.
From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de
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