num_pages: 560
description: La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made himone of the world's greatest and best-loved story-tellers. This revised edition of the classic translation of 1846 is richly annotated. An introduction sets Dumas and his work in their literary, historical and cultural context.
language: French
title: La Reine Margot
titlecomplete: La Reine Margot
characters: Henri III of France, Comte La Môle, Henri de Guise, François duke d'Anjou, Gaspard de Coligny, Henri IV of France, Marguerite de Valois, Catherine de Medici, Charles IX of France
genres: Fiction, Historical, France, Adventure, French Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 13116
places: France
series: The Last Valois, Valois
publisher: Oxford University Press