Catherine de' Medici has gone down in history as a rotten ruler, who was believed to have had a 'flying squadron' of female spies in her court and may have instigated the deadly St Bartholomew's Day massacre.
But is this a fair judgement of the 16th-century queen and regent? Leah Redmond Chang reconsiders her legacy...
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