How Catherine de Medici Made Gloves Laced with Poison Fashionable
Throughout history, Catherine de’ Medici has been considered something of a sorceress, a 16th-century French queen and banking heiress adroitly trained in the mixing of potions and capable of murder without a hint of remorse. One legend that has helped this reputation to endure is the story of Jeanne d’Albret, the Queen of Navarre. France in the 1500s was a place of constant civil war between Catholics and Protestants. Jeanne d’Albret fiercely...
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