Book description
The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her
beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry
of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise,
refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate
the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about ...
In the midst of an August heatwave, tensions run high: the marriage
hasn't brough peace between Catholics and Huguenots. Realising her
weakening power over her sickly son, King Charles, Catherine persuades
him of a plot against his life. Mad with fear, Charles agrees to a
massacre that will rid France of its 'pestilential Huguenots for
ever'. And so the carnival of butchery begins, marking years of terror
and upheaval that will end in the demise of kings, and finally expose
Catherine's lifetime of depraved scheming...
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction
for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific
English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean
Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the
time of her deah in 1993.
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