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Marguerite de Valois
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Janine Garrisson
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Fayard
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Celle que l’on nomme la reine Margot n’est pas tout à fait cette femme de luxe et de volupté que l’on s’est plu à imaginer. Fille d’une époque de fer et de sang, celle des guerres civiles, elle en endure les horreurs et la Saint-Barthélemy la marque à tout jamais. Princesse puis reine, elle croit pouvoir jouir des atouts de son rang. Comme un prince, comme un roi, elle affiche ses amours, elle déploie le luxe ostentatoire des puissants et participe aux clans politiques: vaine liberté, vains espoirs qui la renvoient sans cesse à elle-même, à cette femme qui ne peut exister ailleurs que dans le faste de la représentation. Car Marguerite subit jusque dans sa chair le joug de sa famille qui toujours l’utilise pour après la rejeter. Etre la fille de Catherine de Médicis, être la soeur de Henri III distordent sa vie et sa destinée au point de la rendre misérable. Contrainte d’épouser le huguenot Henry de Navarre, futur Henry IV, premier roi Bourbon, elle ne trouve dans cette alliance qu’incompréhensions et infidélités. Marguerite de Valois, femme de scandale et de volupté, sûrement! Mais que de courage, voire de témérité puisque, à la fin de sa vie, la dernière des Valois, sans renoncer à cette liberté qui lui a coûté si cher, appuie et favorise la nouvelle dynastie des Bourbons. Janine Garrisson, professeur émérite des universités, a écrit de nombreux ouvrages sur les périodes troublées du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle.

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Marguerite de Valois
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Alexandre Dumas
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9781609776138, 9780265380093, 9798658846491, 9781406895872, 9781523481880, 9780460013260, 9789353366278, 9781354612897
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Queen Marguerite of Valois, sister of Charles IX and wife of Henry of Navarre, is surrounded by political and amorous intrigue during the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. The author, according to his custom, introduces a vast array of characters, for the most part historical, all spiritedly drawn and well sustained. M. Dumas may, in various respects, be held up as an example to our history spoilers, self-styled writers of historical romance, on this side the channel. One does not find him profaning public edifices by causing all sorts of absurdities to pass, and of twaddle to be spoken, within their precincts; neither does he make his kings and beggars, high-born dames and private soldiers, use the very same language, all equally tame, colorless, and devoid of character. The spirited and varied dialogue in which his romances abound, illustrates and brings out the qualities and characteristics of his actors, and is not used for the sole purpose of making a chapter out of what would be better told in a page. In many instances, indeed, it would be difficult for him to tell his story, by the barest narrative, in fewer words than he does by pithy and pointed dialogue.

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Marguerite de Valois
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Alexandre Dumas
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Alexander Dumas invites us to be guests at this wedding, which will soon be called „bloody”. Just a few days later, a tragedy will occur. Bartholomew’s night will happen, in which many Huguenots, including Admiral de Coligny, are destined to die. What will happen to the young Heinrich of Navarre, will he be able to avoid the fate of his co-religionists? And Margarita, what will be her behavior in the current difficult circumstances?

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