The Queen And The Courtesan (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
‘In return I have agreed to release France from its indebtedness, the balance to be given in cash to a total sum of six hundred thousand livres, which will represent your dowry. The Ambassador has this very day been dispatched to Paris with the signed articles of marriage. What think you of that?’ Marie de Medici gasped. Six hundred thousand livres! How could she be worth such a sum? It terrified her. So many projects of marriage had been mooted and failed. She had once hoped to marry her cousin, Don Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, a handsome and chivalrous chevalier, but it had come to nothing, as had this one with Henry IV, which had rumbled on for years. By now the King of France must be approaching fifty, and with a reputation for philandering, so she’d rather hoped that too might similarly flounder. No doubt he was pressed for cash, and she, as a rich royal bride, was seen as a solution to his troubles. Marie sighed. She should not complain. Was that not always the lot of princesses?
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