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Diane de Poitiers
Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and the mistress of King Henry II, who was nearly twenty years her junior. She held great influence at court and received many gifts, including the duchy of Valentinois and the château of Chenonceau, which Catherine de' Medici took back after Henry's death in 1559. She retired to her château of Anet.
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