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    Reading the French Renaissance: Game of Queens, a book review

    Let me get my one criticism out of the way before I go any further, and that’s the fact that there was little that directly addressed the women of late Sixteenth-Century France. Chapter 42 is devoted to St Bartholomew’s day, and Chapter 43 does address some events afterward, but for the rest of the book, Gristwood focuses on the rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Given the fact that the subtitle of the book is The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, I’d have switched my focus on the two queens myself. Still, the book is a fascinating read. he Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe First off, the…