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Though Sir Henri last week retired from his Royal Dutch Director Generalship, it was being said in London financial circles last week that he is not the sort of man to be idle very long, that he is probably laying bait to hock concessions and contracts from Dictator Hitler as soon as Germany gets back her "stolen" colonies...
Cousin Giulio, who succeeded Giovanni in the Papacy, wangled a more brilliant match for little Catherine than old Pope Leo had dared to dream about. At 14 she became the bride of heavy-lidded Henri, second son of the King of France. For a long time she was unable to conceive a child, and her sterility became important when the Dauphin died and her husband became heir to the throne. By trying everything once she managed, after ten barren years, to become a mother. Thereafter she triumphantly proved her ability by producing nine more children...
Europe was having its troubles, but Catherine let Europe take care of itself. As a model wife and mother, she had her hands full at home. Henri had never made any secret of his infatuation for Diane de Poitiers, who was old enough to be his nurse, and Catherine even had to share her children with her rival. Only very occasionally did Catherine let her feelings come to the surface. Once Diane found her reading, asked what the book was. Said Catherine: "I am reading the chronicles of France, and I find that from time to time, at every period...
...impression of a person emerging from a grave illness or who had just escaped from some great danger." Once again-this-time she was 55- Catherine sat by the deathbed of a son who was also King of France. And again she had one to take his place. Henri III fled from his unwanted job as King of Poland and came home to see what he and his mother could salvage. He had to borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser...
...onetime enemy, Henri of Navarre, who became Henri IV of France in spite of all Catherine's maternal machinations, gave the old lady her due. Said he: "What could the poor woman do, with five little children on her arms, after the death of her husband, and two families in France, ours and the Guises, attempting to encroach on the Crown? Was she not forced to play strange parts to deceive the one and the other and yet, as she did, to protect her children, who reigned in succession by the wisdom of a woman so able? I wonder...