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    architecture. Diane de Poitiers was born on 9 January 1500, in the Château de Saint-Vallier, Drôme, France. Her parents were Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint...
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    to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who became fervently attached to the château along the river. In 1555 she commissioned Philibert de l'Orme to build...
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  • Diane is a 1956 American historical drama film about the life of Diane de Poitiers, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by David Miller, and produced...
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    Château d'Anet (category Historic house museums in Centre-Val de Loire)
    department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France. It was built...
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  • Louise de Brézé (1521–1577), Duchess of Aumale and Dame d'Anet, was a French noblewoman of the 16th century, the second daughter of Diane de Poitiers and...
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  • Jean de Poitiers, seigneur de Saint Vallier (c. 1475 – 1529) was a French nobleman best known as the father of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry...
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    state affairs and instead showered favours on his chief mistress, Diane de Poitiers, who wielded much influence over him. Henry's death in 1559 thrust...
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    representing Diane de Poitiers. It was created c. 1550 to be the central ornament of a grand fountain in a courtyard of Diane de Poitier's Château d'Anet...
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    and as Sebastian "Bash" de Poitiers, the illegitimate son of King Henry II of France and his chief mistress Diane de Poitiers in Reign (2013–2017) and...
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    great-niece, Catherine de' Medici, thus setting up the triangle that was to continue until Henry's death, with his widow, Diane de Poitiers, becoming Henry's...
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    Fontainebleau. Painted in about 1550, it is a mythical representation of Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of King Henry II, in the guise of the goddess Diana...
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    romantically involved with a thirty-five-year-old widow, Diane de Poitiers. Henry and Diane had always been very close: the young lady had fondly embraced...
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    Brézé was born in ca. 1518 as the first daughter and child of Diane de Poitiers and Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, Count of Maulévrier and grandson of...
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  • Representatives Diane de Poitiers (1500–1566), French noblewoman Diane Rakiecki (born 1961), Canadian multi-sport para-athlete Diane Ratnik (born 1962)...
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    mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to accept the Château de Chaumont in exchange for the Château de Chenonceau which Henry had given to de Poitiers. Diane de Poitiers...
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  • The Serpent Queen (category Cultural depictions of Catherine de' Medici)
    Diane de Poitiers, Henri's older mistress Paul Chahidi as Charles de Bourbon, another member of the privy council Navid Negahban as Claude, Duke de Guise...
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    her care and upbringing were entrusted to Henry's mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Diane's father treated her well: her household included a governess, tutors...
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    (1552–1559), built for Diane de Poitiers, the plans of which are preserved in Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's Plus excellens bastimens de France, though only...
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    Henri II of France as a favourite of both the king and his mistress Diane de Poitiers. In 1547 he was elevated to the rank of Marshal of France. In 1549...
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    gardens of Diane de Poitiers (1551) and Catherine de' Medici (1560) Château de Chantilly (1524) Château de Fontainebleau (1528–1447) Château de Saint-Maur...
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  • were born five children, including Louis de Brézé, who would go on to marry as his second wife Diane de Poitiers, herself a mistress of Henri II of France...
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    the Dauphin Henry and Diane de Poitiers were working to reinstate Montmorency at court. Francis, so instructed, banished Diane from court. In response...
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  • The "two Dianas" of the title are Diane de Poitiers (the mistress of Henry II) and her supposed daughter Diana de Castro. The novel's setting is earlier...
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    The teenaged female bather is unknown. It is possible that she is Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France when she was a teenager. Scholar...
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  • and Countess of Diois. King Henry II of France created his mistress Diane de Poitiers Duchess of Valentinois in 1548. She was the only suo jure Duchess...
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  • 1467) 1566 – Louise Labé, French poet and author (b. 1520) 1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499) 1595 – Torquato Tasso...
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    repudiation of his mother in favour of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, but this repudiation was mitigated by Diane's insistence that Henry spend his nights with...
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    it was donated by King Henri II to his mistress Diane de Poitiers. However, she preferred Château de Chenonceau and sold the property to the former owner's...
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    himself opposed at court by the king's mistress Diane de Poitiers and her allies the duc de Guise and Cardinal de Lorraine. He led the crushing of the gabelle...
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    86-87. Walter Sidney Scott, «Le manuscrit de Diane de Poitiers (source probable de Shakespeare pour la figure de la Pucelle)», Bulletin des Amis du Vieux...
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