5/22/2023 0 Comments Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy![]() Review Quotes Plaidy has crafted a compelling narrative, full of historical detail and fascinating characters. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine bes 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. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. Amid the glittering ftes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride bes a passionate but unwanted wife. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Fourteen-year-old Catherine de Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. ![]() Book Synopsis Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidys classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess. About the Book Originally published in Great Britain in 1952 by Arrow Books-T. ![]()
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