I read the first novel in the series, Madame Serpent, and was unimpressed if still engaged enough in the storyline being recreated to continue reading this second novel about one of France's most infamous Queens. I seem to fare better with her Tudor-centric novels than I did with this novel set during Catherine's life as regent of France for her sons. Jean Plaidy is certainly a prolific historical fiction author, but more and more I find that her work is hit or miss with me. Ravages the country and Jeanne fights for the Huguenot cause, CatherineĪdvances along her unholy road, making enemies at every turn. But the widowedĬatherine is now the ambitious mother of princes, and she will doĪnything to see her beloved second son, Henry, rule France. The dashing but politically inept Antoine de Bourbon.
And so bothĬatherine’s and Jeanne’s lives are set on unwanted paths, destined toĬross in affairs of state, love, and faith, driving them to become Jeanne of Navarre once dreamed of marrying this same prince, but, likeĬatherine, she must comply with France’s political needs. Henry, Duke of Orleans, her heart was not the only one that was broken.
Of historical fiction When Catherine de’ Medici was forced to marry Published: first 1952, re-issued January 2013Ĭlassic Catherine de’ Medici trilogy from Jean Plaidy, the grande dame
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