Madame Serpent (2012)
“Yet how was her position changed? It was Diane, not Catherine de’ Medici, who had, in effect, mounted the throne of France.
Everywhere now could be seen the King’s initial intwined, not with that of his wife, as etiquette asked, but with that of his mistress. Two D s overlapping (one reversed) with a horizontal stroke binding them to form an H, . They were worked into the masonry, they were embroidered on banners; and even on his clothes, Henry wore them as an ornament.
Catherine continued to s...mile and none would have guessed that within her burned a desire to deface those entwined letters whenever she saw them. She pretended, as did the more kindly people who surrounded her, that the letters were two C s and an H, not two D s. It made it less humiliating that this could be assumed.
So she went about the court graciously, giving no sign of misery in her heart. She had her own circle now, and she saw that it was conducted with the utmost decorum. All the ladies and gentlemen who surrounded her went in awe of her.MoreLess
Everywhere now could be seen the King’s initial intwined, not with that of his wife, as etiquette asked, but with that of his mistress. Two D s overlapping (one reversed) with a horizontal stroke binding them to form an H, . They were worked into the masonry, they were embroidered on banners; and even on his clothes, Henry wore them as an ornament.
Catherine continued to s...mile and none would have guessed that within her burned a desire to deface those entwined letters whenever she saw them. She pretended, as did the more kindly people who surrounded her, that the letters were two C s and an H, not two D s. It made it less humiliating that this could be assumed.
So she went about the court graciously, giving no sign of misery in her heart. She had her own circle now, and she saw that it was conducted with the utmost decorum. All the ladies and gentlemen who surrounded her went in awe of her.MoreLess
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