Dr. Estelle Paranque
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And so his allegiance is going to go towards his wife Anne. And her family. So Catherine here is not really gaining much power, but she's growing in terms of like, she asked to be called Queen Mother of France. And that is a title that has never been given before. And it's a very important title because in the title you have Queen.
I want to tell you that before Francis I had his mother, she was Mother of the King.
And you see the difference between Mother of the King and Queen Mother. And that's an importance, a title she gives herself. And that's going to have more and more importance in the years to come.
Navarre is a small territory between Spain and France and has had such a huge diplomatic importance for centuries before.
And they're royal blood. Both of them have like princes of blood in them. It's very important because when you're a prince of blood, it means you have a right to the throne.
Yes. I mean, again, OK, that's, again, from a source that is like their detractors. But there's a bit of truth in that in terms of like they control them.
Yeah.
You sound like Catherine.
I sound like a mother.
It's Charles. It's going to be Charles IX of France. He's totally, utterly under the control of his mother. And Catherine, she's become the matriarch of a family.
Yes.
Yeah, over 30. Yeah.
Oh, she's ruling at that time.
Yeah, she's in charge.
And then they start again. They always start again. There's always a mean way. That's one thing about Catherine, like her dark legend. And even you see it in the Serpent Queen by stars. It's like she's the one instigating those wars. She's not. There's no monarch. And mark my word here. It's not good for them to live in a realm where there's constant.
Vassy is in their territory in Lorraine. And on their way back to Joinville, they're going to see that the Huguenots are worshipping not outside of the town, but inside the town. And it's against the law. And they decide to kill all of them.
And her sons, yeah. They don't have peace.
Yes. Again, I would just like to say that it's been also like it's a myth around Catherine. Well, they have Flying Squadron. So they're called the Flying Squadron. And there were noble women, between 80 and 300 noble women, well-born girls, who were there to basically flirt men to manipulate them for Catherine's interest. But let me just say, like, historians have debunked that myth.
Because it's important to say, because if Catherine had been that successful with so many women being able to flirt and obviously have sex with noblemen to get what she wanted, do you think she would have had such a hard time for the next 30 years? Probably not. That's one thing. But it is true. That is Isabelle de Limoy. She became Condé's mistress. And Condé is a Bourbon.
He's a Protestant. Yeah. It is true that there was like some inference from Catherine where she wanted to know what he had in mind, what he had planned. So she did seduce him to get information for Catherine and it worked. But I think from that real example, they just made it up that Catherine was just basically paying women to sleep with men to get information.
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