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Catherine de' Medici XMAS NR This book is: Authored byA Financial Times Book of the Year Thoroughly researched. Sunday Times To be devoured. Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well told history.' Washington Post History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de Medici. In this new biography of the most powerful woman in sixteenth century Europe, Mary Hollingsworth uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and