Madame Serpent: A Catherine De' Medici Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781451686203)

Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidy's classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess.

Fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family.

Amid the glittering f tes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes consumed by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn by a Medici heir. . . .

Author: Jean Plaidy
ISBN-10: 145168620X
ISBN-13: 9781451686203
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2012
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/28/2012 pg. 69