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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 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 ...
| ISBN | 0099493179 | | Pages | 416 | | ISBN13 | 9780099493174
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 278 | | Publisher | Cornerstone | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Arrow Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 199 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 131 | | Publication date | 06 Jul 2006 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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