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Maria de' Medici (1573-1642) The second wife of Henry IV, king of France. "Maria, though beautiful, was an obstinate, ambitious, passionate, and stupid woman. Her quarrels with Henry over her favorites and the King's gallantries became the talk of Paris." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XV, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 82-83.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 266. (Marriage of Henry IV, and Maria de' Medici)
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