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Marie de' Medici confronts Cardinal Richelieu before Louis XIII.Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1901). Day of the Dupes (in French: la journée des Dupes) is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power. [1]
Urbain Grandier, who was convicted and executed as a result of the Loudun possessions. The Loudun possessions, also known as the Loudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took place in Loudun, Kingdom of France, in 1634.
Snow White's father, the king, eventually took for his new wife a cold-hearted and vain woman who possesses a magical mirror that attests she is the most beautiful in the land. But when Snow White reaches an age where her beauty overshadows that of her stepmother's, the jealous Queen has a huntsman take Snow White deep into the forest to kill her.
Its plot follows a terminally ill woman dealing with her ex-husband's new lover, who will soon be their children's stepmother. Stepmom was released in the United States on December 25, 1998, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing $159.7 million worldwide against a ...
Upon the death of Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Mazarin as First Minister and godfather to the child dauphin.The queen, Anne d'Autriche, seeing in Mazarin a continuation of the policies of Richelieu to whom she was opposed, eventually allowed herself to be won over by his diplomacy and charm.
For me, being a stepmother has involved near constant calibration and adjustment, many moments of white-hot frustration, and other moments of real triumph. 9 Things Stepmoms Should Know About ...
A common villain of classic fairy tales is the abusive stepmother, like the queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lady Tremaine in Cinderella, or Madame Fichini in The Trouble with Sophie, which shows mother-in-law as cruel. She mistreats her non-biological child by locking them away, or trying to kill them in some cases, and treats her own ...
Stepmother accused of killing boy, 11, and dumping body in suitcase compared crime to ‘Lifetime movie’ ...