Author: Jean Plaidy
Year: 1952
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Historical fiction, Romance
Cultures: France, Italy
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9781451686203
9780099493174
145168620X
0099493179 |
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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 fêtes 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...
This book is part of the "Catherine de Medici" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Queen Jezebel"
First published in 1958
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 | "The Italian Woman"
First published in 1952
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