Catherine de Medici: A Biography by Leonie Frieda, Leonie Frieda
Catherine de Medici: A Biography

Leonie Frieda, Leonie Frieda

Catherine de Medici: A Biography

Leonie Frieda, Leonie Frieda

544 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced

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Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France, she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husb...

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