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Concino Concini, Marquis d'Ancre (?-1617) "A Florentine adventurer, who went to the French court in 1600 with Maria de' Medici, Queen of Henry IV. With his wife, Leonora Galigai, he exercised an unhappy influence in promoting the disagreement between the King and Queen." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. I., New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920. 608.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 330. (Assassination of Marshal d'Ancre, drawn by A. de Neuville.)
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