Duchess of Aquitaine
Subtitle: A Novel of Eleanor
Contributors: Kinuko Y. Craft (Illustrator)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: June 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780312205331
Subjects: Historical - General; Fiction / Historical; American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; 1122?-1204; Crusades; Eleanor,; France; of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England,
First sentence: Saint James of Compostela looked down approvingly on the glitter of candles about his cathedral.
Description: Inheriting France's richest province at the age of fifteen, duke's daughter Eleanor becomes vulnerable to fortune hunters and successfully plots to marry King Louis before considering a more powerful alliance with Henry II of England.