The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France.. 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 ftes 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...
Autorentext
Autorentext
Jean Plaidy
Titel
Madame Serpent
Untertitel
(Medici Trilogy)
Autor
EAN
9781446411612
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.63 MB
Anzahl Seiten
416
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