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Concini — Marie de’ Medici’s Italian favourite, Marshal d’Ancre, killed at the Louvre in 1617
A Florentine adventurer who came in the queen’s train, he governed through her, made himself a marshal without having served, and was shot down on the order of a king of fifteen taking power thereby. (Editorial synthesis)
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