Catherine de Medici
Subtitle: Renaissance Queen of France
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780060744939
Subjects: Monarchy And Aristocracy; Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Royalty; Europe - France; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; 1519-1589; 16th century; Biography; Catherine de Mâedicis,; France; History; Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,; Queens
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.