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Catherine de'Medici, Paperback / softback Book

Catherine de'Medici Paperback / softback

Part of the Profiles In Power series

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Catherine de' Medici (1518-89) is one of the most controversial of all historical figures.

Wife of one French King and mother of three others she was a key figure Renaissance France and ineradicably associated with the St Bartholomew Massacre.

Professor Knecht goes behind the familiar Black Legend to assess the real Catherine and reveals a more sympathetic figure than most of her contemporaries.

This study - the first recent biography of her in English - by a leading scholar, is a major event.

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