Catherine de Medici
Subtitle: Renaissance Queen of France
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: January 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780060744922
Subjects: Historical - General; Royalty; Europe - France; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Queens; Biography/Autobiography; Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,; France; Biography & Autobiography / General; 1519-1589; Biography; Catherine de Mâedicis,
First sentence: On the late afternoon of Friday, 30 June 1999 a long splinter of wood from a jousting lance pierced the eye and brain of King Henry II of France.