The author continues a tough and truthful story about the religious and political strife that swept the French court. “The Black Queen,” as Queen Regent Catherine de Medici was nicknamed by her enemies, tried her best to reconcile the warring camps, entered into dynastic marriages, bribed and promised, but the country continued to fall apart and bleed in a long-term civil war. And ahead was still the most terrible night in the history of France... “Catherine de Medici” is a direct continuation of the novel “The Huguenots.”