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Marguerite de Valois 'la reine Margot'. By ELIANE VIENNOT. (Collection Tempus) Paris: Perrin. 2005. 660 pp. 11 [euro]. ISBN 2-262-02377-8.

Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615) was a diplomat, a patron of the arts and a muse, an author and a poet, and a prominent salonniere. Alas, she is known less for her achievements and more for her traditional womanly/familial roles as daughter of King Henri II, sister of three kings, and wife of a fourth (Henri IV). Above all, she is known for her marriage-turned-bloodbath on Saint Bartholomew's Night, 1572, her humiliating expulsion from her ...

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