Anne Dowriche of Anne du Bourg, a counselor in the Parliament of Paris who opposed using capital punishment for crimes of heresy. The third major event of the poem is a retelling of the bloody St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, an attack against Huguenots which began in Paris in 1572 and spread throughout France. Dowriche imagines the queen of France, the devoutly Catholic Catherine de Medici, fiercely proposing the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. While St. Bartholomew’s Massacre was a real series of events, Dowriche invented the detail that Catherine de Medici proposed the killings. Though Catherine de Medici is a villainous character
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Harcourt in 1965, comprising nineteen "short stories and long stories", as Porter herself would say. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. "Collected Stories", in addition to four exclusive new stories, contains all stories previously collected in "Flowering Judas"; "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"; and "The Leaning Tower". In the preface "Go Little Book ...", Porter abjured the word "novella", calling it a "slack, boneless, affected word that we do