Catherine, painted as the wicked witch of the west by some biographers, was loved by her daughters Elisabeth and Claude, her son-in-law Charles (Claude’s husband) her sister-in-law Marguerite, Diane of France (Henry II’s illegitimate daughter) and Christine her beloved grand-daughter.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Tribute.

Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance perfume.

In 1912, visiting a relative in Tours, François Coty, the perfume man, fell in love with the Loire Valley.