Catherine De Medici And The Lost Revolution By Ralph Roeder

Catherine de' Medici and the Lost Revolution is a 1937 historical biography by Ralph Roeder. It explores the 16th-century political and religious struggles of France through the lens of Catherine de' Medici. The book’s subtitle refers to the Huguenot rebellion; Roeder posits that although this Protestant revolt failed, it planted seeds of revolutionary consciousness that culminated in the French Revolution two centuries later.