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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catherine De' Medici
Born 13 April, 1519; died 5 January, 1589; she was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici (II), Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d' Auvergne who, by her mother, Catherine of Bourbon, was related to the royal house of France.
In a word she was a woman of the Renaissance, a disciple of Machiavelli, and the objective point of her policy may be perceived when we remember that she was a mother, crowned.
de la Ferriere, I IV, and de Puchesse, VII (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale); de Lacombe, Les débuts des guerres de religion: Catherine de Médicis entre Guise et Conde (Paris, 1899); Bouchot, Catherine de Medicis (Paris, 1899); Sichel, Catherine de Médicis and the French Reformation (London, 1905).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03443a.htm   (1469 words)

  
 Italy
This appalling deed destroyed the last bastion of continuity with the Classical World and ushered in the brief and pathetic Latin Empire in Romania.
It was to be returned to the Bourbons afterwards, and it was, with a little confusion introduced by the revolutionary year of 1848.
When Garibaldi landed an army in Sicily in 1860, Bourbon authority collapsed quickly, and the North and the South of Italy were finally reunited for the first time since the invasion of the Lombards in 568.
www.friesian.com /italia.htm   (10172 words)

  
 Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
FRONTENAC ET PALLUAU, LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE (1620--1698)
FUSTEL DE COULANGES, NUMA DENIS (1830–1889); French historian, was born in Paris on the 18th of March 183o, of Breton descent.
After studying at the Ecole Normale Superieure he was sent to the French school at Athens in 1853, directed some excavations in
encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE   (465 words)

  
 European Royal History: Our Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Paoli Dominique, Henriette Duchess de Vendome, new 2000, $ 34.00
Cortequisse, Bruno Mesdames de France: Les filles de Louis XV A collective biography of the eight daughters of Louis XV and Marie Leczinska (in French) Perrin, France 2001 New/Pb/$34.00.
The story of the second Bourbon king of France, son of Henri IV and father of Louis XIV.
www.eurohistory.com /bookstore.htm   (5666 words)

  
 The Staff
Crider and his wife, Judy, won the "best short story" Anthony in 2002 for "Chocolate Moose," a Dan Rhodes short story.
After leaving law enforcement, New Orleans author O'Neil De Noux was a private-eye for six years.
Small anachronisms are a way of life: he still prefers a manual typewriter for most writing, shaves with a Gillette Blue Blade, gets his news via the radio and papers, and drinks bourbon with a Schlitz back.
www.thrillingdetective.com /cont.html   (7229 words)

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