Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Marguerite de Valois
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Marguerite de Valois
Author: Alexandre DumasThe Works of Alexandre Dumas: Marguerite de Valois. Chicot, the Jester
Author: Alexandre DumasThe Works of Alexandre Dumas: Marguerite de Valois
Author: Alexandre DumasThe Rival Queens
Author: Nancy GoldstonePublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316409677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.
Médicis Daughter
Author: Sophie PerinotPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466883480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
It's the winter of 1564 and the beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to her mother's household, where her true education begins in earnest. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Queen Catherine is an intimidating and unmoving presence in France, even as her country recovers from the first of many devastating religious wars. Among the crafty nobility of Queen Catherine's royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her manipulative family. Eager to be an obedient daughter, Margot embraces her role as a pawn to be married off to the most convenient bidder. Despite her loyalty, Margot finds herself charmed by the powerful and charismatic Duc de Guise and falls for him even as she is promised to another. Finally setting aside her happiness for duty, Margot leaves the man she loves for Henri of Navarre, a Huguenot leader and a notorious heretic. Yet Queen Catherine's schemes are endless, and Margot's brother plots vengeance in the streets of Paris. Forced to choose between her family and what's right, Margot at last finds the strength within herself to forge her own destiny. Médicis Daughter is historical fiction at its finest, weaving a unique coming-of-age story and a forbidden love with one of the most dramatic and violent events in French history.
Marguerite de Valois
Author: Alexandre DumasMemoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Author: Marquerite de ValoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
La Reine Margot
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192838445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
LA REINE MARGOT (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An Introduction sets Dumas and his works in their literary, historical, and cultural context.
The Works of Alexandre Dumas
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description