There is the infamous Catherine de Medici, deliciously evil, constantly plotting and poisoning Le Mole, a dashing and irresistable young Protestant who becomes Marguerite's lover the noble Coconnos who provides a great source of comic relief and at the center of all this intrigue are the good-hearted Marguerite and Henri who are perfect political allies with complicated and fascinating love lives.Ī new translation of Dumas’s rousing sequel to The Three Musketeers, picking up 20 years after the conclusion of that classic novel and continuing the adventures of the valiant d’Artagnan and his three loyal friends With well-known historical figures as main characters in a dangerous and breathtaking game for power, Queen Margot tells of conspiracies, clandestine trysts, and daring escapes. The lively prose and wonderfully constructed plot tell of court intrigues and forbidden love, of beautiful queens, duchesses, and noblemen, suspense, conspiracies, betrayals, assassinations, superstitions, poisonings, and sumptuous feasts. In this inventive and compelling novel, Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history vividly to life with much excitement and romance. The wedding brings noblemen from all over the world to Paris resulting in the notorious Saint Bartholomew Massacre, where thousands of Protestants are killed. Several important political events have led up to this marriage including the mysterious murder of Henri de Navarre's mother, cleverly plotted by Catherine de Medici. Henri de Navarre is a Protestant who later will become the beloved King Henri IV. Marguerite is King Charles' sister and the daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, all firm Catholics. Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre. The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants.

Musketeers twenty years after