Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
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Publication Date: March 6, 2008
ISBN: 0552557218
Page Count: 480
When Nostradamus, wild-eyed and trembling, proclaims to the French court his prophecy of a great massacre to take place on the streets of Paris, the young King Charles only laughs. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, pays more heed - she believes Nostradamus can truly see the future. But Nostradamus's prophecies are not only for those who rule; he also has a message for Mélisande, the minstrel's daughter. For he is certain that Fate links him and Mélisande together. And as the Angel of Death approaches, the soothsayer gives into her safekeeping some very special parchments - parchments that the titled heads of France would do anything to see... A rich, dramatic adventure set in the tumultuous years of the late sixteenth century in France - a time of assassination, poisons, seers and the sword. A time when a king must be saved...Theresa Breslin’s ‘The Nostradamus Prophecies’ follows the turmoil of Melisande, Minstrel’s daughter, after the death of her sister and the imprisonment of her sister. Thirteen year old Mesliande must escape the court of King Charles IX and his widowed Mother, the Regent Catherine de’ Medici. In her terror, confusion and determination to see her sister avenged, Melisande knows only one man who can help her. Michel de Nostradamus. Unfortunately for Melisande, Nostradamus has seen more than just her Father’s rescue in her future.
