Confessions of Catherine de Medici

I was ten years old when I discovered I might be a witch... The sixteenth century: the era of queens. Catherine de Medici is an impressionable, mystical girl. She is orphaned and taken hostage by her enemies, and manipulated by her advisors; yet she is to become France''s most powerful regent. History will make her name synonymous with evil, but she is all too human. Humiliated at the hands of...