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The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent...

One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year "Intimate social history." —New York Times Book Review An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit. In...