Alexandre Dumas 
La reine Margot 

Le premier roman de la trilogie des guerres de religions, ou trilogie des Valois. L’action se passe entre la nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy (24 août 1572) et la mort de Charles IX (30 mai 1574). Un coktail d’aventures et d’histoire, avec deux amis, Annibal de Coconnas et Hyacinthe de La Mole, séparés par la religion, puis réconciliés, une reine politique, Catherine de Médicis, et une reine amoureuse, Marguerite de Valois.

A propos de l’auteur

Alexandre Dumas, père (French for ‘father’, akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent.