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Queen Margot
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Laura
Jul 08, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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The first book of the trilogy on the Valois. Now I must read La Dame de Monsereau and Les Quarante-cinq. I don't understand how L"Academie Francaise didn't recognize Dumas pere work, only of his son with La Dame de Camelies. ...more
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Sharon Wasserman
Mar 21, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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I loved this book. Dumas wrote it in serial form, so it is fast paced and hard to put down--almost every chapter ends with a cliffhanger. It is set in Paris in the 1570s, during and after the marriage of Catholic Marguerite de Valois (Margot) to Protestant Henry de Navarre, a union orchestrated by Margot's mother Catherine de Medicis, which ends up resulting in the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre on French Protestants. It's got it all: history (albeit re-written by Dumas), scandal, intrigue, a ...more
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