Rachelle Macquinet, a couturiere from one of France's most celebrated silk-making families, struggles to keep her eyes on God when Queen Mother Catherine de Medici tries to implicate her beloved husband Fabien in an assassination plot.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: catherine de medicis, queen, consort of henry ii, king of france, 1519-1589, fiction, dressmakers, fiction, courts and courtiers, historical fiction