Queen Margot (Summarized Edition)

Set amid the French Wars of Religion, Queen Margot tracks the politicized marriage of Marguerite de Valois to the Huguenot Henry of Navarre and the carnage of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Dumas fuses court conspiracy—Catherine de' Medici's maneuvers, secret corridors, poison phials—with the romance of La Mole and Coconnas. Written in the swift, cliff‑hung cadence of the feuilleton yet enric...