Note 6 — DISCOURSE II. CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI, QUEEN, AND MOTHER OF OUR LAST KINGS.
Reading edition
Honoré de Balzac’s volume, in the Philosophical Series of his “Comedy of Human Life,” on Catherine de’ Medici, while called a romance, is really an admirable and carefully drawn historical portrait, and might be read to profit in connection with Brantôme’s account of her.—Tr.