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Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Original) | Jean Plaidy

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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 "fetes "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. . . ."

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AllieMint

Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Original) | Jean Plaidy

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4 out of 5 stars. The extraordinary tale of Catherine De Medici ... the trials that life offered her and her quest for power.. and love! Although she is not depicted as the purest of women, I felt for her throughout the novel and smiled at her exertions for revenge against those who took what was rightfully hers... A woman who could kick ass but a woman who had her heart hardened with the wrongdoings of others.

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AllieMint

Madame Serpent: A Catherine de' Medici Novel (Original) | Jean Plaidy

Back to what I like to read most.... #historicalfiction ... back to #plaidy .. don't think it's going to disappoint!

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