His hate for the "mother queen" - the infamous Catalina de Medicis is well felt, and the book is presents her as a real monster. Margot's marriage and unusual relationship with Henry IV and her love affair with La Mole take a good part of this book, though I didn't feel that Margot is indeed the main character here, so I find the name of the book a little bit inappropriate to the plot.īeside creating a lively, moving plot which keeps the reader glued to the chair, Dumas is great with developing his characters. The reigning king of that time was Charles IX, and Margot is his sister, the beautiful Marguerite de Valois. Set in the second half of the 16 century, this book tells the story of the royal family of France during and a little after the bloody massacre of Huguenots by the Catholics on St Bartholomew's Day. This book is another of Dumas' classics, along with The Count of Monte-Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
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