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“The Confessions of Catherine de Medici ”

Written on: 10/05/2011 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
C.W. Gortner
Ballantine, May 24 2011, $25.00
ISBN: 9780345501875

In 1589, seventy year old Catherine de Medici looks back on her life as a king maker with sins to confess just like she insists everyone else. When she was ten years old she thought she was a witch as she has her first vision. When she was thirteen, the orphaned Catherine becomes engaged in an arranged marriage to Henri d'Orleans, brother of the ailing heir to the French crown. ... (read more)