Complete and unabridged, with 44 full-page plates by François Clouet, Corneille de Lyon and Niccolò dell'Abbate. Catherine de Medici defended - Balzac argues that the woman blamed for Saint Bartholomew's Day was holding France together and would have been praised as a great king. Three linked narratives, and the most contrarian thing in the Human Comedy. This edition adds 44 plates of paintings by François Clouet, Nicolo della Casa, Léonard Limousin and others, and Katharine Prescott Wormeley's translation of all three parts.