| ISBN |
9781529029871 |
| 1529029872 |
| Author |
Mosse, Kate, 1961- author. |
| Title |
The city of tears / Kate Mosse. |
| Published |
London : Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2021. |
| Physical description |
xvi, 543 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Burning chambers 2 |
| General note |
"Courage will be their greatest weapon" -- cover. |
| Summary |
June 1572: for ten, violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de’ Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family’s oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew's, Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . . |
| Subject |
Catherine de Médicis, -- Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France,1519-1589 -- Fiction |
| Henry -- IV,King of France,1553-1610 -- Fiction |
| Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 -- Fiction |
| Man woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Royal weddings -- Fiction |
| Historical ficton |
| France -- History -- Henry IV, 1589-1610 -- Fiction |
| France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Fiction |
