Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife...

Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife...

that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the...

Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 25 May 1671 – 9 July 1737) was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany. He was the...

Jean Gaston d'Orléans, petit-fils de France, Duke of Valois (17 August 1650 – 10 August 1652) was a French Prince and Grandson of France. He was a member...

whereupon his title and betrothal were transferred to Gaston, his younger brother. Marie de' Medici gave birth to her fourth child, a son, at the Palace...

ally against his own mother. On 11 November 1630, Marie de Médicis and the king's brother, Gaston, duc d'Orléans, secured the king's agreement for the dismissal...

Ferdinando de' Medici (9 August 1663 – 31 October 1713) was the eldest son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans...

madmwazɛl], lit. 'The Great Miss'), was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest...

Plaidy, Jean (25 April 1983). Myself My Enemy. Putnam. ISBN 978-0-399-12877-6. Plaidy, Jean (25 April 2024). The Italian Woman: A Catherine De' Medici Novel...

Auguste Leroux and Adolphe Déchenaud 1895 – Gaston Larée 1896 – Charles-Lucien Moulin 1897 – No award 1898 – Jean-Amédée Gibert and William Laparra 1899 –...

Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme, and the gallery on the bridge, built from 1570 to 1576 to designs by Jean Bullant. An architectural mixture...

Navarre after his father Henry IV was assassinated. His mother, Marie de' Medici, acted as regent during his minority. Mismanagement of the kingdom and...

residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative...

German). Vol. 6. p. 152 – via Wikisource. Anselme 1726, pp. 143–144. Marie de Médicis at the Encyclopædia Britannica Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg...

p. 9. Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici. George Allen and Unwin, 1963, p. 69. Nicolas Le Roux, «La cour dans l'espace du palais: l'exemple de Henri III»...

(1566–1584) Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1646–1660) Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1660–1696) Charles de France, Duke of Berry (1710–1714) Louis de France, Count...

descendant of Béatrix d'Évreux, she died without issue. Gaston of Foix (1507–1512) Giuliano de' Medici (1515–1516), married to: Philiberte of Savoy (1516–1524)...

both by Jean Plaidy. Livre d’Heures de Catherine de Medicis 1556. Reproduced by kind permission of Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Département de Manuscrits...

April 1672), Duchess of Orléans, was the wife of Gaston, younger brother of Louis XIII of France. As Gaston had married her in secret in defiance of the King...

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon (16 November 1725 – 4 March 1793) was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles. He was...

Jean V de Parthenay-L'Archevêque, or Larchevêque, Sieur de Soubise (c. 1512 – 1 September 1566),  was a Protestant French nobleman, last lord of Mouchamps...

and was the first fils de France to assume the use of altesse royale abroad; Philippe de France, duc d'Anjou (1640–1701), Gaston's nephew was known as le...

George Randolph Barse Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun Jean-Eugène Buland Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant Vlaho Bukovac Gaston Bussière Louis Capdevielle Eugène...

court who sided with Gaston, Duke of Orléans. During the turbulent years of 1629 and 1630, in which Marie de Medici and Gaston had reputedly allied against...

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, prince d’Anet et comte de Dreux, a fait transporter de l’église de Rambouillet dans la collégiale de Saint-Etienne...

including Kundera, Borges, Kadare, and Styron List of recipients of the Prix Médicis (France) – including Eco, Perec, and Kundera List of recipients of the...

France, Nicolas Henri de France, Duke of Orléans, but he died at the age of four in 1611. She was then betrothed to his brother, Gaston de France, Duke of Orléans...

singer and actress Jane Birkin. He had six children with his wife Marie de' Medici and also had at least eleven illegitimate children with his many mistresses...

Cambridge University Press. Leonie Frieda (14 March 2006). Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. HarperCollins. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-06-074493-9...