| Record Number |
738745 |
| ISBN |
9780099493174 (paperback) |
| Author |
Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993 author. |
| Title |
Madame Serpent / Jean Plaidy. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Arrow Books, 2006. |
| ©1951 |
| Pagination etc. |
405 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally published: London: Hale, 1951. |
| Summary Note |
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 fetes 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 ... |
| Subject - Name |
Catherine de Médicis, -- Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,1519-1589 -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Queens -- France -- Fiction |
| France -- Kings and rulers -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F PLAI |
