stackyFACTSForget sending a passive-aggressive email; the French royal court preferred a much more celestial approach to HR disputes.
Forget sending a passive-aggressive email; the French royal court preferred a much more celestial approach to HR disputes. The ruthless 16th-century Queen Catherine de Medici employed Cosimo Ruggieri as her personal astrologer and occultist. Whenever political rivals started getting annoying, she allegedly had him cast dark astrological curses and whip up poison to violently rearrange the royal hierarchy in her favor.
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