Queen Margot: Wife of Henry of Navarre (Classic Reprint) (Daw=sf Books)

French history have women played a more prominent part than in the sixteenth century. Their influence pervaded religion, politics, literature, and the arts. They protected Reformers, defied Popes, ruled Kings, shared in every hazard and danger of war, encouraged men-of-letters, patronised artists and sculptors. What a galaxy of famous names do we find !M arguerite dA ngoul me, theD uchesse dE tampes, Diane de Poitiers, Renee de France, Duchess ofF errara, Jeanne dA lbret, Catherine de Medici, Mary Stuart. Yet, if we except the ill-starred Queen of Scotland, the last acts of whose lifes tragedy were played out on another stage than that ofF rance, none of these celebrated women furnish material which is at once so acceptable to the student of history and to the general reader as the subject of the present volume. For not only does Marguerite de Valois typify perhaps more completely than any woman of her time the society of the latter part of the sixteenth century, but her career is the very quintessence of romance. Born in an evil day, as Catherine de Medici once remarked to her, this daughter, sister, and wife of kings, though endowed with every outward perfection and with intellectual gifts of an unusually high order, was from her youth the sport ofF
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