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5 articles matching “Marie de' Medici”
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She governed France in the name of a boy who needed to put both hands to his crown to keep it steady. Marie de' Medici was his mother and his regent. The difficulty would come when he wanted to govern for himself.
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At twelve she married a boy of ten who was not even in the room. On the same day, his sister married her brother. Each family would gain a daughter-in-law. Each would send a daughter away.
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She had lost every child born to her before him. As a little boy, her son was painted by Velázquez on a rearing horse, a command baton in his hand, to hang between the portraits of his parents. The family's future had been given a place on the wall.
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Marie de Bourbon's daughter inherited her fortune at six days old. People would tell her how fortunate she was. She would grow up to give a different account.
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On 8 July 1617, a cart rolled into the Place de Grève in Paris with a woman inside it. She had spent thirty years within reach of the French queen’s hand. The crowd was there to watch a witch die.