tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post6068707202799894543..comments2024-03-16T13:30:40.704-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Catherine de Medici and François Ielena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-3238892741350333242010-06-16T13:28:02.636-04:002010-06-16T13:28:02.636-04:00I think we must remember too, how the older contem...I think we must remember too, how the older contemporary families viewed the Medicis. They were considered upstarts; unbelievably wealthy and powerful, but really just gangster hustlers whose pawn-broker arms revealed their base origins. But Medici women came with huge dowries - something irresistible to even the lofty French royal house. The new Bourbon dynasty saw that, as Henry IV married Catherine's kinswoman Marie. Now Medici blood is in nearly all European royal bloodlines, including Britain's young Princes, William and Harry.tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-14204210092916390162010-06-16T13:00:38.713-04:002010-06-16T13:00:38.713-04:00Whig history (read fiction) will always paint Cath...Whig history (read fiction) will always paint Catherine as the mastermind of the St Bart's Day murders. Her celluloid portrayals have always been so bad they border on camp/satire.(re the monstrously painted Verna Lisi in 'Queen Margot', the fat witch in MasterpieceTheatre's 'Elizabeth R', and the best (read worst) ever - D. W. Griffith's Catherine in 'Intolerance', where she's trapsing and gloating over the corpses in the streets of Paris.tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.com