Reina por amor

Synopsis of Reina por amor

«Reina por amor» is the historical novel by Geneviève Chauvel, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in hardcover (432 pages, in Spanish).

Drawing on the correspondence between Marie Casimire de La Grange and Juan Sobieski, the novel reconstructs the life of a decisive woman in the seventeenth-century Polish court. Chauvel weaves her intense love story together with European politics and Marie Casimire's leading role in Poland's destiny and in halting the Ottoman advance on Vienna.

First Spanish edition of 1999, in the Narrativas Históricas collection from Edhasa. Translation of the French original Reine par amour.

For readers of historical fiction interested in seventeenth-century Europe and the political role of women at court.