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in honor of her husband, Henry IV, she awarded the commission to
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were found; the missing head was fortuitously recovered from the riverbed later, after a frantic search that included notices of rewards posted in newspapers. (
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for projects, as they were stored at the workshop, are in some cases the only testament to works that have been lost or that were never executed.
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for the banker Jerome (Girolamo) de Gondi, gentleman of the King's bedchamber, whose
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