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The Independent on Sunday | February 8, 2004| | Copyright

It is history's greatest attraction (and we are in a feeding frenzy for it at the moment) that the stories it tells are often more bizarre and outrageous that anything fiction can imagine. The life of Catherine de Medici is a classic example. Born into one of the great families of Europe - though by her time known as much for its avarice and corruption as its patronage and intelligence - she was married at 14 into the French royal family and spent her queenly years as a brood mare, but at her husband's death (by a spear through his eye in a joust) she was catapulted into political leadership. ...

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