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
Nicotine is named from Jean Nicot, French ambassador at Lisbon, who sent some tobacco plants to Catherine de Médicis in 1560.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Louis XII., and Francis I. Fireworks could not fail to be attractive at the Court of the Valois, to which Catherine de Médicis had introduced the manners and customs of Italy.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
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 Alexis de Tocqueville
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 Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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