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CATHERINE HENRIETTE DE BALZAC ENTRAGUES

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CATHERINE HENRIETTE DE See also:BALZAC See also:ENTRAGUES  D' (1579-1633), marquise de See also:Verneuil, See also:mistress of See also:Henry IV., See also:king of See also:France, was the daughter of See also:Charles See also:Balzac d'See also:Entragues and of See also:Marie Touchet, mistress of Charles IX . Ambitious and intriguing, she succeeded in inducing Henry IV. to promise to marry her after the See also:death of Gabrielle d'See also:Estrees, a promise which led to See also:bitter scenes at See also:court when shortly afterwards Henry married Marie de' See also:Medici . She carried her spite so far as to be deeply compromised in the See also:conspiracy of See also:Marshal See also:Biron against the king in 1606, but escaped with a slight See also:punishment, and in 1608 Henry actually took her back into favour again . She seems then to have been involved in the See also:Spanish intrigues which preceded the death of the king in 1610 . See H. de la Ferriere, See also:Henri .t V. le rot, l'amoureux (See also:Paris, 1890) .

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