Maria Santi: War against all strangers Automatic translate
Diana de Poitiers ruled France under King Henry II. So contemporaries spoke of her:
“It was a pity to watch the young prince adore a faded face, corroded by wrinkles, a gray head, half-eared eyes, sometimes red and festering - in short, the vile remains of what many others had time to enjoy.”
So, according to the Spanish ambassador, the monarch behaved with her:
“The king sits at one’s knees with a guitar in his hands, and, playing on one, asks the connable if he will be nearby, or Omal, is it true that the aforementioned Silvius * has a good guard, touching his own chest and carefully examining his lady with such a look, as if amazed by her friendship ”**
She was greedy. She turned a whole scam so that the castle of Chenonceau donated to her ceased to belong to the royal lands. Consequently, she did not have to return it when the crowned lover died. For the family, she became a legend. The great-great-grandson went to bow to her ashes.
Even if the world crumbled and the devastated France yielded to the conquered, Diana calmly tore her piece. So she returned her former possessions in Italy, for which the king had to cede even more to the lords of Flanders and Burgundy. Even after the death of the monarch, his favorite managed to unite with two equally rich clans. And instead of nationalizing its castles built at the expense of the crown, as well as investigating fraud, fake court sentences and official crimes, the world received a distracting massacre between Catholics and Protestants.
How did she build and maintain her mythological palace amid wars and poverty?
- Daily engaged in horseback riding. Diana was 19 years older than Henry II, and the courtyard was full of young beauties.
- Rushed along with a broken leg to shame the spree king. At the same time, of course, she screamed that she did not need anything from him, if only he was happy.
“She insisted on every manifestation of her power.” On the pediment of the Louvre its crescents were knocked out. At the time of the coronation, the favorite was seated in a place of honor, and the lawful wife in a remote tribune.
- Passed by the ears when the queen called her a whore.
- But the favorite of the previous king Francis I Diana did not say a word. She depressed everything that she could and drove her proteges from high posts.
- Fought for her friends, softening their conditions in case of disgrace.
- Sent excited Henry from her bedroom to his wife to make heirs.
Once Catherine de Medici poked a hole in the chambers of Diana. She wondered: how "old mushroom " can attract her young husband? And even thought to pour acid over Diana. But what she saw cooled her fuse. Diana and Henry, laughing, rolled off the bed and made love on the carpet.
Perhaps it was precisely recognizing the power of femininity that Catherine de Medici created her "flying battalion " from beautiful girls, next to whom the necessary people, having fun, agreed to the decisions prompted by him.
* - Diana’s name encrypted for diplomatic correspondence
** - cited from the study of Ivan Klulas "Diana de Poitiers"
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