Queen Margot (Summarized Edition) (eBook, ePUB) - Dumas, Alexandre
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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 speed, cliffhangers, and painterly period detail, the novel fuses archival color and audacious invention. As the first panel of Dumas's Valois trilogy, it refracts the French Wars of Religion through…mehr

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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 speed, cliffhangers, and painterly period detail, the novel fuses archival color and audacious invention. As the first panel of Dumas's Valois trilogy, it refracts the French Wars of Religion through Romantic drama and political suspense. Alexandre Dumas, dramatist-turned-novelist and son of the Napoleonic general Thomas-Alexandre Dumas of Caribbean descent, made history his stage. Writing under the July Monarchy with Auguste Maquet, he mined chronicles and archives to animate dynastic fracture. His mixed heritage and theatrical instincts sharpened this study of Valois decadence, religious fanaticism, and the perils of authority. Readers seeking a riveting synthesis of political thriller, love story, and cultural history will find Queen Margot indispensable. It rewards the patient with indelible characters, mordant wit, and moral clarity amid chaos-an essential gateway to Dumas's Valois cycle and to understanding France's fractured modern origins. Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable-distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

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