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
Catherine de Médicis carried Henry IV, when a child, to old Nostradamus, who antiquaries esteem more for his Chronicle of Provence than for his vaticinating powers.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
They named it Charlesfort, in honor of the unhappy son of Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX., the future hero of St. Bartholomew.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
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 John Lord
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
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