Portraits of the Queen Mother

Leah L. Chang is Associate Professor of French at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France (2009). Katherine Kong is an independent scholar and former Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France (2010).

• Acknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Letters of Catherine de Médicis, Selections 63Relazioni of the Venetian Ambassadors on the Affairs of France in the Sixteenth Century, Selections 111Marvelous Discourse on the Life, Actions, and Deportment of Catherine de Médicis, Queen Mother (1576), Selections 141Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, “Second Discourse on the Queen, Mother of Our Last Kings, Catherine de Médicis,” Selections. From Book of Ladies, Poetry, and Funerary Writings 181Appendix 209Bibliography 255Index 269