1. The Double Standard in the Courts of Henri II and Louis XIV
... affairs. This activity was not acceptable for women to participate and was publicly denounced but officially accepted for men to participate in extramarital affairs. Henri II and Louis XIV both had very public love affairs with the same person and through this, they wielded more power to her then to the Queen ... in Le Princesse de Cleves, where Catherine de Medici, daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, the ruler of Florentine , is married to Henri II. This marriage helped Henri II gain much more clout in Italy. Women of high social classes were married to other men of an equal social class or h...
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