Catherine De' Medici

LibriVox recording of Catherine De' Medici by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley.) Read in English by Edmund Bloxam The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in part through the use of fiction. 'Catherine de Medici' is one such 'study', and features, alongside detailed history (and even architectural) sections, elements of the 'story' are fictionalised. In particular, this happens through dialogue that describes the feelings of the characters and what they are doing, these pa