Alexandre Dumas

Queen Margot Alexandre Dumas

Queen Margaret (French: La Reine Margot) is a novel written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas Sr., also the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. It is located in Paris, in August 1572 during the reign of Charles IX (a member of the Valois dynasty) and the wars of religion in France. The protagonist of the novel is Margarita de Valois, daughter of the ill-famed Catherine de Medici and the late King Henry II, and focuses on her story during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, especially her romantic affair with the Protestant La Mole. and her marriage to Enrique IV.