Catherine de Medici : Renaissance queen of France / Leonie Frieda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frieda, Leonie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589.

Catherine de Médicis.

Queens--France--Biography.

Queens.

France--History--16th century.

France.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 440 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fourth Estate, c2003.

Contents:

Prologue: Death of a King 1559

Orphan of Florence 1519-33

'The Greatest Match in the World' 1515-34

A Barren Wife 1533-47

The Eclipsed Consort 1547-49

Catherine's Growing Importance 1548-59

An Uneasy Partnership 1559-60

'Gouvernante de France' 1560-62

The First Religious War 1562-64

The Grand Tour 1564-66

Conciliator No Longer 1566-70

Margot's Marriage Is Arranged 1570-72

The Massacre 1572

The Last Years of Charles IX 1572-74

Henri III, King of France 1574-76

Alencon's Treachery 1576-84

Hope Dies 1584-88

So Perish the Race of the Valois 1589-1615.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Weidenfield & Nicholson"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-410) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Cordelia Frances Biddle.

ISBN:

0060744928 (hc)

9780060744922 (hc)

OCLC:

57436161