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CATHERINE DE' MEDICI-Ralph Roeder -Viking...
...could say, "I told you so." Altogether she and France had to survive eight civil wars. Survive them she did, though by the time they were over her purely maternal policy had involved her deep in gory deeds. For the treacherous massacre on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Biographer Roeder makes her directly responsible, attempts to show that the massacre was no part of a settled policy but a suddenly-enforced expedient to save her weak-kneed royal...
...Renaissance, by Ralph Roeder...
...RENAISSANCE-Ralph Roeder-Viking...
...post-War years in Paris as stage manager for Jacques Copeau and an abortive attempt to start a U. S. newspaper in Rome, he went back to Manhattan, got a job in Brentano's publishing house, married Fania Mindell, theatrical scene designer. Piqued by thoughts of Savonarola, Author Roeder wrote and published a book about him but was disappointed with it. He decided to write it over again; The Man of the Renaissance was the result. Fair, 43, with a cold intelligent eye, erect carriage and precise enunciation, Author Roeder lives bookishly but sociably in Manhattan. Between meals...