TY - BOOK AU - Dumas,Alexandre AU - Maquet,Auguste TI - Marguerite de Valois AV - PQ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610 -- Fiction KW - Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 -- Fiction KW - Queens -- France -- Fiction KW - Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reine_Margot_(novel); Release date is 2010-09-02; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Marguerite de Valois" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel written in 1845. Set during the French Wars of Religion in 1572 Paris, it follows Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Henry II, whose marriage to Protestant Prince Henri de Bourbon is meant to bring peace. But her mother, Catherine de Medici, schemes to orchestrate the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. As court intrigues multiply and poisonings follow, Margot begins a dangerous affair with the soldier La Môle while Catherine plots to secure power for her own son. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33609 ER -