About Catherine De Medidc, Volume Twenty-Four

USA: P.F.Collier & Son, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Collier, NY, c 1900. The first complete translation into English, Honore de Balzac, in Twenty-five Volumes. This is Volume Twenty-four. Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Green cloth binding with bright and clear gilt lettering on spine. Boards scuffed, heavily rubbed at corners, edges also rubbed. Yellow and green endbands. Sewn binding tight, solid and square, backstrap loosened. Frontis photogravure, "CHRISTOPHE", tissue protected, with red print on tissue, tissue is loose. Text pages clean, unmarked, no tears, toned. flexible not fragile. 16th century France was a tumultuous time of civil and religious warfare, the whole time of Catherine's reign. As King Henry II spouse, she wasn't politically involved; her reign as Queen of France was from 1547-1559. When Henry II died in 1559, her political power grew and held sway during the reign of three sons, Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III, all of whom, she out-lived. She was determined to do whatever it took to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne and was considered ruthless. She was in power at the time of the St. Bartholomew's Massacre of 1572 when thousands of Huguenots, French Calvinists Protestants, were killed throughout France by Catholic mobs, for their religious beliefs, 389 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. c. 1900. P.F.Collier & Son, New York, New York, USA