Perinot concocts an absorbing, albeit lengthy and somewhat historically inaccurate, story. As not much is known about the real Marguerite de Valois, it falls to the author to take great liberties to paint Margot as she sees fit in this case, she is depicted as a powerful woman caught up in the traps of the French court and having to find a way to be her own person in a world in which a woman's life is controlled by men. Margot's story is one of her tempestuous relationship with Catherine-of her need to be loved and accepted by, yet also free from the stranglehold of, her mother. In this fictional account of the life of Marguerite de Valois (1533–1615), Perinot ( The Sister Queens) takes us inside the world of 16th-century European royalty. Life as a French princess may sound glamorous, but growing up as the daughter of "La Serpente," Queen Catherine de Médicis, is not without its many pitfalls.
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