The rival queens: Catherine de' Medici, her daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
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London Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
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434 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) 24 cm
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Published
London Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.
Format
Adult Book
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Set in Renaissance France at the magnificent court of the Valois kings, this book tells the history of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici, the infamous queen mother of France, was a consummate pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous 'Queen Margot', was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his Huguenot followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family.
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City Library - Non-fiction | 920 MED | On Loan |
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