La reine Margot

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Ed. J'ai lu, 1994 - Fiction - 695 pages
Août 1572. La cour célèbre les noces de Marguerite de Valois, soeur de Charles IX, avec Henri de Navarre. Une fête royale teintée de menaces car ce mariage qui aurait dû réconcilier cathoiques et protestants attise encore les passions. Dans l'ombre, les combinaisons vont bon train et les Guise, rendus haineux par la montée du pouvoir de l'amiral Coligny, préparent en secret la Saint-Barthélemy... Si elle a promis à son époux une alliance politique, franche et loyale, la belle Margot ne tarde pas à s'éprendre du jeune comte de la Mole que la tragédie du 24 août jette en pleine nuit dans sa chambre... Amours tumultueuses vécues dans les coulisses du Louvre, nourries de complots périlleux et de folles intrigues. Passion foudroyée, hélas! Les acteurs de ce drame ne sont-ils pas tous manipulés par Catherine de Médicis, la redoutable Florentine?

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About the author (1994)

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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