{"first_publish_date": "2005", "subtitle": "a novel", "title": "The courtesan", "covers": [209871], "subject_places": ["France", "Francia"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3553.A7654 C68 2005"], "subject_people": ["Catherine de M\u00e9dicis Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France (1519-1589)", "Catalina de Medicis Reina, consorte de Enrique II, Rey de Francia (1519-1589)"], "key": "/works/OL29563W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL26605A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Ficci\u00f3n", "History", "Historia", "Novela hist\u00f3rica", "Catherine de Me\u0301dicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 -- Fiction", "Fiction, historical, general", "France, fiction", "Magic", "Good and evil", "Fate and fatalism", "Triangles (Interpersonal relations)", "Betrayal"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["Henry II, 1547-1559"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Determined to ensure her future by winning the heart of Henry, the Huguenot king of Navarre, sixteenth-century courtesan Gabrielle Cheney finds her plans jeopardized by the malevolent enmity and dark arts of the queen, Catherine de Medici."}, "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T07:30:47.452303"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-19T20:37:40.968821"}}