Marie de' Medici
Henry the Great of France married Marie de' Medici in 1600. Their first child was due in 1601. Henry wanted Madame Dupuis to be the midwife for the first child. Marie de' Medici chose Bourgeois instead because she demonstrated authority. She had successfully assisted the childbirths of several young ladies of the Royal Court as a loyal professional midwife. Bourgeois wrote of her experience with this first childbirth of Queen Marie in her 1617 book "True accounts of the births of the royal children of France."