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Catherine De Medici, Renaissance Queen of France
by Leonie Frieda
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2006
- PAPER
- 440 PAGES
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Poisoner, despot, necromancer. In this vivid portrait, Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds -- from a troubled childhood in Florence to her marriage to Henry, son of King Francis I of France; from her transformation of French culture to her fight to protect her throne and her sons' birthright.
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