Dark Eminence Catherine De Medici And Her Children by Marguerite Vance

Author:Marguerite Vance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Published: 1961-03-09T05:00:00+00:00

by special dispensation. For this you should have a taste of the cold comforts of the dungeon!"

Something in his mad intensity frightened her. The dungeons of Spain and France were too well-known not to strike terror to any heart. Taking leave of the young King and his mother with unflurried courtesy, Queen Jeanne alerted her attendants and had her chariots and saddle horses made ready. Then when night fell, her cavalcade quietly set out for Navarre. Torches flared as they plunged through the darkness and by morning their lead over any pursuers An-toine might have dispatched after them was a safe one, Days later the Queen and her little son were home. She never saw her husband again.

For one of the few times in her life Catherine de Medici was frightened. Her Council of Poissy, from which she had expected so much, had failed. Moreover, one could no

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