Fiction · 1842
Catherine De Medici
Honoré de Balzac · translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Catherine De Medici, first published in 1842, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Part I — The Calvinist Martyr
- I — A House Which No Longer Exists
- II — The Burghers
- III — The Chateau de Blois
- IV — The Queen-Mother
- V — The Court
- VI — The Little Lever of Francois II
- VII — A Drama in a Surcoat
- VIII — Martyrdom
- IX — The Tumult at Amboise
- X — Cosmo Ruggiero
- XI — Ambroise Pare
- XII — Death of Francois II
- XIII — Calvin
- XIV — Catherine in Power
- XV — Compensation
- Part II — The Secrets of the Ruggieri
- I — The Court Under Charles IX
- II — Schemes Against Schemes
- III — Marie Touchet
- IV — The King’s Tale
- V — The Alchemists
- Part III — I. Two Dreams
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About the author
1799–1850 · Romantic
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) naît à Tours. Après des études de droit, il se lance dans l’imprimerie et l’édition ; ces entreprises échouent et le laissent, dès 1828, endetté de plus de soixante mille francs. Il revient à l’écriture : Les Chouans (1829) est son premier roman publié sous son nom. Il conçoit ensuite La Comédie humaine, un cycle de plus de quatre-vingt-dix romans et nouvelles retraçant la société française de son temps, dont Eugénie Grandet (1833) et Le Père Goriot (1835). Après dix-huit ans de correspondance, il épouse la comtesse polonaise Ewelina Hańska en mars 1850 ; il meurt à Paris cinq mois plus tard.
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