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The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)

CHAPTER I
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She died in childbirth, but not without suspicion of poison, on Easter Eve, in the year 1599.
[30] Henri de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne, Duc de Bouillon, Peer and Marshal of France.
[31] Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigny was the son of Jean d'Aubigny, Seigneur de Brie, in Xaintonge, and of Catherine de Lestang, and was born on the 8th of February 1550.

At the age of six years he read with equal facility the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages; and eighteen months afterwards translated the _Crito_ of Plato.

The persecutions of the Huguenots, which he witnessed in his early youth, and the solemn injunctions of his father to revenge their wrongs, rendered him one of the most zealous and uncompromising reformers under Henri IV.

He died at Geneva on the 20th of April 1630, aged eighty years, and was buried in the cloisters of St.Pierre.

D'Aubigny left behind him not only his own memoirs, which are admirably and truthfully written, but also the biting satire known as the _Aventures du Baron de Foeneste_, and the still more celebrated _Confession de Sancy_.
[32] Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain, was the second daughter of Philip II.


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