Pre-Owned The Rival Queens : Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom (Hardcover) 9780316409650 (Good)

from Auntie-Nanuuq

Arrrrrrrrrrg! This was so difficult to read.... If you thought Henry VIII, Bloody Mary Tudor & Mary Scots whack-jobs.... The French under Catherine de Medici were worse... De Medici was a vicious controlling sociopathic piece of work & how her children, once in power, went along w/ her was amazin...

from janerawoof

Dual biographies of two French royals of the late 17th century: Marguerite of Valois [Margot] wife and queen of Henry of Navarre and of Catherine de Medici, wife and queen of Henri II, Margot's mother. A manipulating pragmatist all her life, Catherine engineered the unwanted marriage between Marg...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

Arrrrrrrrrrg! This was so difficult to read.... If you thought Henry VIII, Bloody Mary Tudor & Mary Scots whack-jobs.... The French under Catherine de Medici were worse... De Medici was a vicious controlling sociopathic piece of work & how her children, once in power, went along w/ her was amazin...

from japaul22

When I saw this book was about to be published, I was really excited because it covers the same subject as Alexandre Dumas's book La Reine Margot which I've been wanting to read. I'm interested to see how this nonfiction account pairs with a fictional retelling. Goldstone has chosen a fascinatin...

from irregularreader

I received this book as part of a FirstReads giveaway. starting this book, I had next to no knowledge of the subject matter beyond a vague recollection about Catherine de Medici. But I love history books in all forms and dove in readily. The Rival Queens did not disappoint. The book is superbly a...