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This 1899 illustration shows Catherine de’Medici as painted by the French artist Clouet the Younger (died 1541). Catherine de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman. She also was queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, by marriage to King Henry II, and mother of kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.
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