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Queen Margot

Alexandre Dumas · 1845 CE · Novel · French · Romantic

Marguerite de Valois is married to the Protestant Henri de Navarre to reconcile the two faiths, and four days later Paris begins killing Huguenots in the streets. She shelters a wounded gentleman in her rooms and keeps her husband alive at a court where her mother reads the future and prepares poisons to bring it about. Dumas worked from Marguerite's own memoirs and the chronicles of the last Valois years.

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Attributes

Genre
HistoricalPoliticalRomance
Theme
Power & CorruptionBetrayalForbidden LoveWar & ViolenceFaith & Doubt
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
HeroineVillain / TyrantLover
Plot structure
ChronicleTragic Reversal
Symbol / motif
BloodPoisonThe CrownThe Book / Manuscript
Conflict
vs Personvs Societyvs Fate / Gods
Mode / tone
RomanticTragicGothic
Culture / tradition
French

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