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Catherine de' Medici

noun

  1. de' MediciCatherine15191589FPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1519–89, queen of Henry II of France; mother of Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III of France; regent of France (1560–74). She was largely responsible for the massacre of Protestants on Saint Bartholomew's Day (1572)
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His next novel, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici will be published in 2010.

I also saw some allegorical wood-carving of the time of Catherine de Medici, who built the Tuileries.

Catherine de Medici entered as the king fired his last shot.

In that, she bore a certain resemblance to Catherine de Medici.

Three hundred years ago the palace was commenced by Catherine de Medici.

Catherine de Medici and Robespierre slinking away, poor, guilty things, into the pale twilight of the Dawn!

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