Reine Mère (Fanfiction for History_Exchange)

[selenak]

Reveal time: this is the story I wrote for this year's

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[thalia_seawood]

:-) I guessed your story from content and elegant wording of your summary alone

[selenak]

Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful feedback.

Biographies: the one I used to refreshen my Medici and Valois knowledge was Leonie Frieda's "Catherine de Medici: A Life", which is one of the more recent ones and while not extraordinary quite readable. If you want to check out some more internet links, the blogger Aelarsen wrote a couple of articles on Chereau's movie "La Reine Margot", in which he compares it to its historical background and gives a good overview about the St. Bartholomew massacre at the same time: This is a take on the whole movie as compared to history, this entry focuses on the death of Charles IX in the movie versus history, and here you have a take on De La Mole (Margot's love interest in the movie) versus history.

I've also read a couple of novels about Catherine but wasn't completetely content with any of them, no offense to the authors, while all have also elements I appreciate.