Dear French people, how is this Catherine de Medici viewed in your country?

Dear French people, how is this Catherine de Medici viewed in your country?

I only heard of her recently, is she famous in France?

Is she seen as a great queen like Joan of the Ark?

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She's a controversial queen, considered as one of the greatest queen of France but also remembered as a cruel, cantankerous and power hungry queen. The tendancie lately has been into rehabilitating her tho.

I'd say that overall she's far from being part of the great historical figure everybody knows about like Richelieu, Marie-Antoinette or Louis XIV, but she's is definitely a relevant figure of the French history.

>how is this Catherine de Medici viewed in your country?
Some people still think that she was an evil creature that comanded the Saint Bartholomew's massacre to appease her blood lust. Others acknowledge that she was an efficient ruler who tried to stabilize the kingdom. The vast majority doesn't care.

>I only heard of her recently, is she famous in France?
Yes she is

>Is she seen as a great queen like Joan of the Ark?
Joan wasn't a queen, she was a useless little mascot for the army. Catherine was a great queen though.

Oh and no, she's definitely not as famous and well known as Jeanne d'arc in the popular culture

In this fucking SJW, PC world, Huguenots can be shit on to exalt the historical record of a woman leader, but if you put in Frederick II for Germany, Poles will complain because he said mean things about them

>she was a useless little mascot for the army
Don't talk like that about my martyrfu.

Porn when?

This
I'll admit i'm a pleb, and i had no idea she was even related to France in any way

For me "De Medici" is a family of shady Italian assassins and that's all i know about them,

SAWASDEE!

>Italian wrinklebird is the iconic leader of France
>holding a 1900s style champagne glass
>filled with wine

How could a schizo peasant girl like Joan of Arc become such a relevant figure?

nobody knows she exists outside of the history departments

How could a schizo homeless man like Adolf Hitler become such a relevant figure?

We like yandere lolis

I don't think most people know who she is tbf, there are like a dozen of more relevant and known French historical figures they could have picked instead of her.

Joan of Arc was never queen btw

even though she was never queen i'd be MUCH happier with Joan of Arc than a random Italian politician nobody even knows

in fact if they wanted a female leader so bad, i'd be happier with fucking Marine Le Pen t b h

why does anglo media hates us so badly ?

>ww1 ? lol we're not even gonna represent you
>your civilization's iconic leader ? here you go a random italian bitch lol
WHY
WHAT DID WE EVEN DO TO YOU
WHY ARE YOU SHITTING ON OUR HISTORY WITH SO MUCH HATE WE'RE NOT EVEN YOUR ENEMIES

AAAAAAAOLMOJAOZIFHLQFUSMDFHSOIFJPFSOMJFSPFJSPFMISDLFPSMDL.SKFJS???????

>assassins
Stop playing shitty videogames

There's no need to be upset Jean Pierre.

>implying i played anything past assassin's creed 1

actually my mother had a plastic napkin thing from the comédie française and on it there was a quote which went like this :

"Something something poison"
-Someone de Medicis

literally all i know about them

OF COURSE THERE IS NEED TO BE UPSET

IMAGINE IF WE DIDN'T REPRESENT USA IN A WW2 GAME
AND THEN WE MAKE FUCKING GEORGE III THE LEADER OF THE COUNTRY
AND WE JUSTIFY IT WITH "IT'S JUST A GAME LOL"

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

De medici family is known for really sponsoring the renaissance and ruling the republic of florence like an informal dynasty, later they dropped the act and transformed the republic into a full blown duchy which they eventually lost to a fucking habsburg anyway

Lel no, she pissed off everybody, but got away with it since she was queen and mother of louis xiii, her friends got wrecked though
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concino_Concini
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léonora_Dori

All the females in Civ6 look so ugly.

Everyone in Civ6 looks ugly. The cartoonish artstyle makes me want to puke.

>i wanted based Napoleon as my civ's leader for the 6th fucking time in a row

ffs, Jean

>even though she was never queen i'd be MUCH happier with Joan of Arc than a random Italian politician nobody even knows
kys

>all these """"Frenchmen"""" not knowing who Catherine de Medicis was
Tuly pathetic

>she was queen and mother of louis xiii
>mother of louis xiii
Are you retarded or simply memeing ?

If anyone needs me, i'll be playing Civ 5.

...

what about idk Louis XIV, Charles de Gaulle, Robespierre, one of the ton of great kings we had in the middle ages, or even fucking Vercingetorix

at least those people are French

>at least those people are French
>Vercingetorix

more French than " Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de' Medici"

I want to fuck that queen

Catherine :
>spoke French
>lived in France for a very long time
>gave birth to three French kings
>tried to save the Valois dynasty
>secured French influence by marrying wisely her children
>tried to stabilize the kingdom

Vercingetorix :
>lived before France was even a thing
>is remembered only due to some shitty propaganda settled by the IIIrd Republic
>had no influence on French history whatsoever

Open a fucking history book please

>Poland will have St. Jadwiga
>either a delicious little loli or a 1.80m qt

...

>asterix
>"shitty propaganda"
how does it feel being a literal traitor

you must admit that Caesar fucked Vercingetorix mercilessly under Alessia

>astérix
>IIIrd Republic
Just....what the fuck man ?

it doesn't matter because asterix and obelix absolutely BTFO caesar, stole his laurels, and saved France forever ok

is this the newest meme shoehorned female leader in Civ?

What's their excuse with this one when France has a long, long list of legendary and influential male leaders

>village under military lockdown
>embargo enforced
>asterix and grobelix get through
>bring back delicacies from all around the country
>invite the romans over to taste them all
top bantz

well you're the one who expects me to know about 3rd republic propaganda
i'm not a nerd like you what can i say i don't get your references

what do shitalians have to say to that????

Is this game actually good?

in the books they mostly wanted to spite military commanders, not the common man tho

>tfw they falvoured the dish with caesar's laurels
absolute madmen

>Is she seen as a great queen like Joan of the Ark?

Did you attend an American school?

She brought many italian artists and musicians who completely changed french culture, pretty based.

Charlemagne woul have been a best leader for France.

It looks like a subtle bait but you can never be sure.

Quoi ? Tu connais même pas la 3ème république ?
Ton éducation est sûrement merdique.

You mean Karl der Große?