Marie de Médicis

[ ma-ree duh mey-dee-sees ]

noun

1. 1573–1642, queen of Henry IV of France: regent 1610–17.

Example Sentences

I had never before realized that here lies the vestiges of an ancient Roman aqueduct, alongside the better-known 17th-century aqueduct commissioned by Marie de Médicis to carry water to the fountains of Paris.

From Washington Post

Whenever I visit Paris, I make a point of strolling through the Luxembourg Garden, which—along with the accompanying palace—was commissioned in 1612 by Marie de Médicis, widow of France’s King Henry IV. The grand residence, modeled after Florence’s Pitti Palace, now serves as home to the French Senate, and the garden, which has undergone many changes over the years, is one the city’s most beloved public parks.

From Architectural Digest

"Not at all; she was married in the days of Marie de Medicis."

From Project Gutenberg

The series of pictures in the Louvre, in which Marie de Medicis is introduced in all sorts of dramatic attitudes, never stirred my admiration, as I have said more than once, when standing before those huge canvases, although one for whose opinions in such matters I had infinite respect, used to reply archly, that I "could hardly claim to be an authority in painting."

From Project Gutenberg

We also saw the cell where the brother of the duke was murdered the next day, and the attic entire where their bodies were burnt, after which the ashes were thrown into the Loire by order of the king; the window out of which Marie de Medicis lowered herself when her son Louis XIII. imprisoned her there; the recess where Catherine de Medicis died; and many other interesting places.

From Project Gutenberg