Molière
17th-century French playwright and actor
Was Moliere Queen Margot's ill fated lover?
Queen Margot is a character in Alexande Dumas's La Reine Margot. Queen Margot keeps the head of her executed lover. Joseph Boniface de La Môle, nicknamed La Mole, was executed as a conspirator against Queen Margot's kingdom. Queen Margot is set during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre which occurred in 1572. Moliere was born in 1622.
In what work by Alexande Dumas does Queen Margot appear? When was #1 written? In what year was Moliere born? Is #3 before #2?