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MADAME SERPENT
(MEDICI TRILOGY) |
| By: |
Jean Plaidy |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099493179 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099493174 |
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| Publisher: |
CORNERSTONE |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2006 |
| Series: |
Medici Trilogy |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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 ... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Arrow Books Ltd |
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