Marie de' Medici

Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV.

Marie married Henry in 1600, and was crowned Queen of France ten years later. The day after her coronation, Henry was assassinated by, leaving the queen a widow.

In 1612, she purchased houses from the Duke of Piney-Luxembourg to build a lavish palace designed by, intending to call it the Medici Palace. The Parisians hated Marie however, and insisted on calling it the Luxembourg Palace.

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 * Assassin's Creed: Unity