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advertised her connection to churches through the use <strong>of</strong> personal signs <strong>and</strong> royal symbols.<br />

Seemingly illogical, the inspiration for this decision came from the very person she was reacting<br />

against. Indeed Louis XIII, who became a patron <strong>of</strong> ecclesiastical architecture out <strong>of</strong> a need to<br />

express his political will, drove Maria de’ Medici to use the same method as a means <strong>of</strong><br />

articulating her own agenda.<br />

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