Queen Margot (Summarized Edition)

Queen Margot opens amid the fraught wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henry of Navarre, a fragile truce that precedes the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Dumas stages the Valois court as a theater of poison, daggers, and dossiers: Catherine de' Medici's machinations, the wary cunning of Navarre, and the perilous tenderness between the Protestant La Mole and the Catholic Coconnas. With feuilleton...