Henri II King of France

Standard Name: Henri II,, King of France
Used Form: Henry I,, King of France

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary Setting Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
The action is set at the court of Henri II of France during the sixteenth century. The structure is that of daily tale-telling, and the tales, exclusively about love, provide an inside story supposedly explaining...
Occupation Marguerite de Navarre
She helped, with her mother, to negotiate the Ladies' Peace of 1529. François made her his representative in foreign, domestic, and military affairs; she wielded power for nearly a decade until she clashed with him...
Textual Features Anne Dowriche
AD 's chosen metre, poulter's measure, consists of alexandrines (lines of twelve syllables or six feet) alternating with lines of fourteen syllables or seven feet). She embroiders her prose sources with invented speeches for her...
Textual Features Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
HET hoped in this volume to have spoken in the language of truth and nature to the hearts
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Lines and Leaves. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
preface
of her readers. Many pieces treat spiritual or scriptural subjects, including the admiring St Mary Magdalene...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP published under this name the first historical novel in her trilogy on Catherine de Medici (queen consort of Henri II, King of France ): Madame Serpent.
Sturch, Elizabeth. “Review of Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2586, 24 Aug. 1951, p. 529.
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