A review by katyjo13
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Not as salacious as I’d hoped, but provides an excellent overview of 16th century Europe. I mostly felt sorry for Catherine for the first third of the book— being a woman in this time period sound awful. Overall, this book paints Catherine de Medici as driven, clever, a little scary, and a devoted mother.