Rachelle Dusbane-Macquinet accompanies her grandmother, a famous couturiere, to Paris to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois, and becomes caught up in the intrigue at the Court, risking her life to warn the handsome Marquis Fabien de Vendome of a wicked plot against his family concocted by the regent, Catherine de Medici.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: catherine de medicis, queen, consort of henry ii, king of france, 1519-1589, fiction, courts and courtiers, fiction, historical fiction, france, history, francis ii, 1559-1560, fiction, 1328-1589, house of valois