Queen Jezebel

By Jean Plaidy

Book Overview

The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot still desperately in love with Henry de Guise refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about ...

In the midst of an August heatwave tensions run high: the marriage hasn't brough peace between Catholics and Huguenots. Realising her weakening power over her sickly son King Charles Catherine persuades him of a plot against his life. Mad with fear Charles agrees to a massacre that will rid France of its 'pestilential Huguenots for ever'. And so the carnival of butchery begins marking years of terror and upheaval that will end in the demise of kings and finally expose Catherine's lifetime of depraved scheming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099493195
• ISBN13: 9780099493198
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous author of hundreds of books.

I can’t say enough about Jean Plaidy. If you can read her historical fiction in order I highly recommend this. She takes you behind the scenes of history.

A Wonderful Novel

A superb novel, one of my favourite book I have ever read. Jean Plaidy is able to convert history into an interesting book which people can get absorbed in without a problem. Its an easy book to read with treachery, murder and romance. It has a wide range of vocabulary and I have learnt many new words from reading this book. I recommmend this book for anyone over 14 years old.