The bestselling novelist Kate Mosse kicks off our new season of recordings with this dramatic trip back to sixteenth-century Paris.

The summer of 1572 was supposed to be a joyous one for Parisians. After years of strife a wedding was planned and the best was expected. The events of that August, though, would be remembered for quite different reasons.

Find out more with this conversation between Kate and Artemis. 

The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Kate Mosse's new novel, The City of Tears, which is recently published in hardback by Macmillan

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Show notes

Scene One: Hôtel de Bourbon, Paris, June 1572, where the Queen of Navarre is lodging.

Scene Two: Catherdal de Notre Dame, Paris, 18th August, for the wedding of Maguerite de Valois to Henry de Navarre.

Scene Three: Rue de Béthisy in the early hours of 24th August, St Bartholomew’s Day, as the massacre begins.

Momento: A steel Huguenot cross. 

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Presenter: Artemis Irvine

Guest: Kate Mosse

Producers: Maria Nolan

Titles: Jon O

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