Catherine De Medici
Subtitle: Five Portraits (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, V. 118)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780820461144
Subjects: General; Literary Collections; History - General History; 1519-1589; 1799-1850; 19th century; Balzac, Honorâe de,; Catherine de Medicis,; Catherine de Mâedicis,; French fiction; History and criticism; In literature; Queen, consort of Henry II, Ki; Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,; Sur Catherine de Mâedicis; Literature: Classics
Description: "Who was Catherine de Medici? The answer to this question depends largely on one's religion and politics. Catherine de Medici: Five Portraits examines historically this great queen from the standpoint of her contemporaries and later writers.

The primary focus is Catherine as seen in five works of French literature: Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Cleves, Honore de Balzac's Sur Catherine de Medicis, Alexandre Dumas pere's La Reine Margot, Henri III et sa cour, and Prosper Merimee's Chronique du regne de Charles IX. The famous queen and queen-mother are viewed from a multiplicity of perspectives, including that of victim and victimizer."--BOOK JACKET.