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Catherine de' Medici - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Having lost both her parents at an early age, Catherine was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (on October 28, 1533), at Marseille, to the duke of Orléans, whose elder brother François was alive at the time, but who would become King Henry II of France. |
 | | Catherine unwittingly had vast influence on fashions for the next 350 years when she enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. |
 | | Catherine, thinking her influence menaced, sought to regain it, first by the murder of Coligny, and, after that failed, by the St. |
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