The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by C. W. Gortner
Reading group guide copyright © 2011 by Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from The Last Queen copyright © 2006, 2008 by
Christopher Willis Gortner
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Gortner, C. W.
The confessions of Catherine de Medici : a novel / C. W.
Gortner.
p. cm.
This book contains an excerpt from The Last
Queen by C.W. Gortner, originally published by Two Bridges
Press, Berkeley, CA, in 2006 and in different form by Ballantine
Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division
of Random House, Inc., in 2008.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52194-1
1. Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry
II, King of France, 1519–1589—Fiction. 2. Queens—France—Fiction. 3.
France—History—16th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.O78C66 2010
813′.6—dc22 2010009363
Cover design: Victoria Allen. Cover photograph: Peer Lindgreen.
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