| Madame Serpent: A Catherine De' Medici Novel Original Edition Contributor(s): Plaidy, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 145168620X ISBN-13: 9781451686203 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - Renaissance |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014427757 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.33" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess. Fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Amid the glittering f tes 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. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes consumed 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 by a Medici heir. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Plaidy, Jean: - Jean Plaidy, the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, was one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. She died in 1993. |
