The figures represented here are all French people between 1550 and 1600. They are from left to right: Catherine de Medici (died 1589), a man of rank, two women of rank, a nobleman, a musketeer, a soldier, an officer, three people of the lower classes (a mariner and two women); Elizabeth (also Elizabeth of Valois - daughter of Henry II, third wife of Philip II of Spain), Henry II (died 1559); consort of Charles IX; Charles IX and Charles IX (died 1574). This illustration dates to 1882.

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