Mary, Queen of France: The Story of the Youngest Sister of Henry VIII

Copyright © 2003 by Patricia Hamilton for the Estate of Jean Plaidy

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Originally published in Great Britain by Robert Hale, London, in 1964 and subsequently in the United States by Penguin Putnam, New York.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993

Mary, Queen of France / Jean Plaidy.—1st Three Rivers Press

pbk. ed.

1. Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496–1533— Fiction. 2. France—History—Louis XII, 1498–1515—Fiction. 3. Queens—France—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6015.I3M36 2003

823′.914—dc21

2002041620

eISBN: 978-0-307-49670-6

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