Catherine de' Medici and the Scarlet Nuptials
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Catholicism and the Reformation
The Reformation got its start in 1517, two years before Catherine was even born. By the 1550s, we have the first French reform churches. She's trying to protect her children's throne and defend her own religion. And she can't please everyone. Nobody can juggle all that.
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