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Marguerite de Valois: She Wanted the Terms in Writing First
She was willing to let him go. She wanted the terms in writing first.
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Catherine de' Medici at the Deathbed of Henry II, July 1559
Catherine de' Medici watched her husband ride into a tournament wearing another woman's colours. He was carried out with a lance through his eye and called for his mistress from the bed where he was dying. Catherine refused to let Diane de Poitiers in. The queen had finally found a door she could close.
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Élisabeth d'Autriche: Queen of France for Four Years
She arrived in France at sixteen unable to speak French. Two years later she learned that the man she had married had ordered the massacre of thousands of his own subjects. She asked for her book of hours and prayed for him.