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Catherine de' Medici was a Franco/Italian noblewoman, Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France, who has been accused of taking the worst decisions of the crown. In practice, her authority was always limited by the effects of the civil wars. Her policies, therefore, may be seen as desperate measures to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne at all costs, and her patronage of the arts as an attempt to glorify a monarchy whose prestige was in steep decline. The years in which her sons reigned have been called the age of Catherine de' Medici. This is the story of who has been considered the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe.

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