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Name: Catherine de' Medici
Birth Date: 1519
Death Date: 1589
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Nationality: Italian, French
Gender: Female
Occupations: queen, politician

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Biography of Catherine de' Medici
3,117 words, approx. 10 pages
Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) was a Machiavellian politician, wife of Henry II of France, and later regent for her three feeble sons at the twilight of the Valois dynasty, who authorized the killing of French Protestants in the notorious Massacre of...


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Catherine de' Medici (April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589) was born in Florence, Italy, as Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici. Her parents were Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, countess of Boulogne....


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Catherine de Medici: a Biography.(Book Review)
10/01/2004: 727 words, approx. 2 pages
Catherine de Medici A Biography Leonie Frieda Weidenfeld & Nicolson 440pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 84212 725 X RELIGIOUS FANATICISM IS ALL THE RAGE TODAY. Donald Rumsfeld's 'old Europe' is reawakening to the power of religious belief for good...
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The queen mother who really ruled Catherine de Medici was mother to three kings of France, and exercised more power than any of them in the religious turmoil of the 16th century, says Blair Worden Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda Weidenfeld &amp
01/11/2004: 960 words, approx. 3 pages
UNHAPPY THE land that is torn apart by religion. In the 100 years from 1560, the Reformation plunged first France and the Netherlands, then Germany and Britain, into a long succession of civil wars. The French wars of religion, which lasted nearly four decades,...
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Today in History-Jan 5
12/31/2007: 548 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Saturday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2008. There are 361 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspaper reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known...
 
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