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Madame Serpent / Jean Plaidy

A fictional account of Catherine de' Medici, the fourteen-year-old reluctant Italian bride to the second son of the King of France, Henry, during the sixteenth-century.

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  • "An historical romance centering on Catherine de Medici, from her reluctant marriage at fourteen to France's philandering future Henry II, through years of unrequited passion and love, to her emergence as ruthless Regent of France."
  • "A fictional account of Catherine de' Medici, the fourteen-year-old reluctant Italian bride to the second son of the King of France, Henry, during the sixteenth-century."@en
  • "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 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. 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. . . ."@en
  • "Portrays the early life of Catherine De Medici and her first years as Queen of France."@en
  • "Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, 14 year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. Leaving her true love in Italy, she has been forced to trade her future for a stake in the French crown, and the promise of a dowry fit for a king. Originally published: London: Hale, 1951."@en

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  • "Historical"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en

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  • "Madame Serpent / Jean Plaidy"@en
  • "Madame Serpent : a Catherine de' Medici novel"@en
  • "Madame Serpent. [A novel based on the life of Catherine de' Medici.]"@en
  • "Madame Serpent"@en
  • "Madame Serpent"
  • "Madame Serpent : a Catherine De Medici novel"@en
  • "Madame Serpent/ Jean Plaidy"@en
  • "Madame Serpent : the Medici trilogy"
  • "Madame Serpent a Catherine de' Medici novel"@en
  • "Madame serpent"
  • "Madame Serpent : a Catherine De' Medici novel"@en
  • "Madame Serpent : a Catherine De' Medici novel"

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