Catherine De Medici, by Honore De Balzac
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"Catherine De Medici" from Honore De Balzac. French novelist and playwright (1799-1850).
Catherine De Medici, by Honore De Balzac- Published on: 2015-03-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
About the Author A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. It's by Balzac! By Amazon Customer Looking for a biography of Catherine De Medici, I was astonished to find this one, written by Balzac! Since he's one of my favorite authors, I bought it immediately. It is an interesting read, but very early in my read, I realized that it didn't mean too much if I didn't already know the story of Catherine's life and what the French people thought of her during her lifetime and shortly thereafter. So I stopped and read a recent (and more complete) biography of her so I would know what he's referring to. After that, I was able to follow along quite well. Mostly Balzac is trying to dispel some of the slanders told about her, which people of his time may have believed if they had no other source of information about her. I'm not sure I would call this a biography, since it doesn't cover Catherine's entire life. Balzac covers her time as queen and queen mother, which I have to admit is the most important part of her life. This isn't as much fun as Balzac's fiction, but it is enjoyable and reasonably accurate.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 'as calculating and cold as Reason itself' By sally tarbox I read this immediately after completing Frieda's excellent biography of Catherine de Medici and was glad to have a familiarity with her life while reading this. This is not another biography, however, nor a treatise on the lady.The first (main) part of the book is a narrative of an idealistic young Calvinist, Christophe Lecamus, who is a willing participant in the Prince de Conde's plan to gain access to Catherine with communications from the Protestant faction. I found this section really brought history to life from Balzac's descriptions of 16th century Paris to the personalities at court. Certainly his take on some situations is vastly different from that of Frieda; he imagines huge antipathy between Catherine and her young daughter-in-law Mary (later Queen of Scots) whereas Frieda describes a warm relationship. Similarly Catherine's determination to remove Mary (and her hated Guise relatives) causes her to refuse her son a life-saving trepanning operation. Frieda considers it absurd propaganda that she would have let her son die. Who knows?The second piece is set a little later - Catherine's second son, Charles IX, is now on the throne, an unwell and unhealthy young man, ever distrustful of his mother and her poisons. He brings in her alchemists, the Ruggieris, for questioning. I found the discussion on their craft somewhat over my head but the historic picture of this king was fascinating.Third and finally we are transported to an aristocratic party in 1786. One guest claims to have seen and debated with Catherine over the events in her life. She sums up 'to leave two hostile principles at work in a government with nothing to balance them...is sowing the seed of revolution' and continues 'a revolution which is still progressing and which you may achieve.Yes, YOU, who hear me.'Only in the last sentence is it revealed that the two guests are Robespierre and Marat.Very interesting read, totally interesting to any history book on the subject
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By Brookie Lee Great! Watched the series "Reign""...wanted to know more about this Catherine de Medici!...Facinating!!
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