# Madame Serpent

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- Authors: [Jean Plaidy](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-plaidy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-07-06

## Description

Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown. Amid the glittering fêtes 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. And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied 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 be a Medici heir...

## Editions

### Madame Serpent

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9949-317-4
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2006-07-06
- Language: en_GB