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

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