Madame Serpent (Catherine de Medici Trilogy #1)
Author(s): Jean Plaidy
"Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown. Amid the glittering f tes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France- the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir "
General Information
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- : Random House
- : Arrow PB
- : 0.278
- : 06 July 2006
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jean Plaidy
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 416