1570 Jeanne d'Albret by François Clouet (Musée Condé - Chantilly, Picardy France)

She was Queen-regent of Navrre, a basque region facing the Atlantic straddling the current Franco-Spanish border. She married Antoine de Bourbon and her son Henri (IV) became King of France and founded the Bourbon dynasty.

Flaws in background and one on dress fixed with Photoshop by gogm.

1570 Jeanne d'Albret by François Clouet (Musée Condé - Chantilly, Picardy France)

Jeanne's French hood-like headdress has an open middle spanned by ribbons that allows her coiffure to be seen in this 1570 Clouet portrait.

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