PREFATORY NOTE
Introduction
xi
Part I: Critics, Readers, and
History
Chapter 1
The Internal Narratives:
Distractions, Lessons, or Historical Background?
1
Chapter 2
“What Most People Knew”
22
Chapter 3
Books and Readers
66
Part II: Narratives
Chapter 4
Marie de Lorraine and Mary Stuart
86
Chapter 5
Anne Boleyn
105
Chapter 6
Henry VIII
124
Chapter 7
The Dauphine as Narrator
134
Part III: Portraits
Chapter 8
Diane de Poitiers
147
Chapter 9
Henri II
175
Chapter 10
Catherine de Medici
216
Conclusion
243
CHRONOLOGY
253
BIBLIOGRAPHY
256
INDEX
274
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