by Jean Plaidy · Vergara Editor S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789501514599
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«Madame Serpiente» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Vergara Editor S.A. in paperback (387 pages, in Spanish).
Catherine de' Medici abandons her beloved Hippolyte to marry, at fourteen, Henry, second son of the king of France. In a court where her husband neglects her for a mistress twenty years older, Catherine develops a Machiavellian character and makes her way through intrigues and crimes until she becomes a key figure in the destiny of France.
«Madame Serpiente» is the first volume of the Catherine de' Medici trilogy; the novel originally appeared in 1952.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction set in the French Renaissance court.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
