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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...
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...
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"Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved education" (Spectator)
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"Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting" (Observer)
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"Madame Serpent is the best kind of historical novel - one into which we sink with pleasure and a feeling of undeserved education" (Spectator)
"Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama" (New York Times)
"Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists" (Sunday Times)
"Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting" (Observer)
The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France...
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- PublisherPutnam Pub Group
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0399115064
- ISBN 13 9780399115066
- BindingHardcover
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