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Catherine de' Medici / Honore de Balzac ; translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Queens--France--Fiction.
- Queens.
- French fiction--Translations into English.
- French fiction.
- Catherine de Medicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589--Fiction.
- Catherine de Medicis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (501 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1841.
- Summary:
- Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a story cycle comprising more than 100 novels and stories. Although most of these works are set in nineteenth-century France, several hearken back to earlier periods. Catherine de' Medici centers on the life of the woman born into an aristocratic family in medieval Italy who went on to become Queen consort and, later, regent of France.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; PART I - THE CALVINIST MARTYR; I - A House Which No Longer Exists; II - The Burghers; III - The Chateau de Blois; IV - The Queen-Mother; V - The Court; VI - The Little Lever of Francois II; VII - A Drama in a Surcoat; VIII - Martyrdom; IX - The Tumult at Amboise; X - Cosmo Ruggiero; XI - Ambroise Pare; XII - Death of Francois II; XIII - Calvin; XIV - Catherine in Power; XV - Compensation; PART II - THE SECRETS OF THE RUGGIERI; II - Schemes Against Schemes; III - Marie Touchet; IV - The King's Tale; V - The Alchemists; PART III; I - Two Dreams
- Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-77651-260-X
- OCLC:
- 668054472
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