The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 7) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811)

MARIE DE MEDICIS. [france,
analagous to her temper, was violent, jealous, and do-
mineering. Confident, through want of information;
revengeful, through obstinacy ; more desirous oi repu-
tation than of power, she only aspired to authority to
enjoy the pleasure of submission. When we atten-
tively read the history of this princess we are almost
tempted to pardon in Richelieu the ingratitude with
which he repaid her beneficence.
This princess brought from Florence a taste for the
fine arts. Paris is indebted to her for the palace of the
Luxemburg, the promenade, called Cours de la reine,
and the fine aqueduct of Arcueil.