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Jardin du Luxembourg. The Jardin du Luxembourg ( French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ] ), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de' Medici, the widow of ...
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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie de' Medici has received more than 2,169,505 page views. Her biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019) . Marie de' Medici is the 38th most popular nobleman (down from 34th in 2019) , the 258th most popular biography from Italy (down from 215th in 2019) and ...
Maria av Medici, född Maria di Francesco de' Medici 26 april 1575 på Palazzo Pitti i Florens, död 3 juli 1642 i Köln, var drottning av Frankrike och Navarra 1600 – 1610, gift med Henrik IV av Frankrike. Hon var Frankrikes regent mellan 1610 och 1617 under sin son Ludvig XIII :s minderårighet. Hennes lagliga mandatperiod gick ut när ...
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (11 August 1667 – 18 February 1743) was an Italian noblewoman who was the last lineal descendant of the main branch of the House of Medici.A patron of the arts, she bequeathed the Medicis' large art collection, including the contents of the Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti and the Medici villas, which she inherited upon her brother Gian Gastone's death in 1737, and her ...
A royal commission. The Galerie Médicis houses the complete series of paintings on the life of Marie de’ Medici by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the greatest painters of his time. The episodes of the queen’s life are presented both allegorically and historically, and are hung in chronological order. Marie de’ Medici was the widow of King ...
Marie de' Medici confronts Cardinal Richelieu before Louis XIII. Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1910) Day of the Dupes (in French : la journée des Dupes ) is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss ...
