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* BalconyEscape: The way La Mole saves his life, when the royal siblings meant to off him.
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* BalconyEscape: The way La Mole Môle saves his life, when the royal siblings meant to off him.
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* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]. Visually invokes BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, but the gown in question isn't Margot's wedding dress.
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* DawsonCasting: While the ages of the characters are almost never specifically stated in the film, most of the actors are noticeably older than the people they portray.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]. Visually invokes BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, but the gown in question isn't Margot's wedding dress.
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* DawsonCasting: While the ages of the characters are almost never specifically stated in the film, most of the actors are noticeably older than the people they portray.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
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* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]. Visually invokes BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, but the gown in question isn't Margot's wedding dress.
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* DawsonCasting: While the ages of the characters are almost never specifically stated in the film, most of the actors are noticeably older than the people they portray.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.you.
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]. Visually invokes BloodSplatteredWeddingDress, but the gown in question isn't Margot's wedding dress.
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* DawsonCasting: While the ages of the characters are almost never specifically stated in the film, most of the actors are noticeably older than the people they portray.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is the first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are Literature/LaDameDeMonsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is the first novel of The ''The Last Valois Valois'' series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are Literature/LaDameDeMonsoreau ''Literature/LaDameDeMonsoreau'' and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
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During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, Môle, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
* ArrangedMarriage: Margot and Henri de Bourbon.
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* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results.
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
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* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry Henri of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results.
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* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Catherine
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* DawsonCasting: While the ages of the characters are almost never specifically stated in the film, most of the actors are noticeably older than the people they portray.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
** Isabelle Adjani and Daniel Auteuil were 40 when they played a queen and king who were historically 19.
** Alençon is specifically stated to be 17, but the actor playing him was 25 when the film was made.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is the first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are LaDameDeMonsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is the first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are LaDameDeMonsoreau Literature/LaDameDeMonsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is thr first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is thr the first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père. The series next books are La Dame de Monsoreau LaDameDeMonsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is a novel written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père, whose previous works include TheCountOfMonteCristo and TheThreeMusketeers.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is a thr first novel of The Last Valois series written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père, whose previous works include TheCountOfMonteCristo père. The series next books are La Dame de Monsoreau and TheThreeMusketeers.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is a novel written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père, whose previous works include TheCountOfMonteCristo and TheThreeMusketeers.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Beside the famous Huguenot decimation, the plot contains murders by poisoning, court intrigues and several attempts of murder.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Margot kept rather grisly souvenir.
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* ClosetShuffle: Once Margot hide her ''husband'' and her ''lover'' in the same cabinet
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Coconnas and La Mole need to fight twice before they achieve friendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre]].
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]],
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree.
* TheMistress: And a real nice one
* NiceToTheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffWithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Coconnas and La Mole]] took the fall for [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]].
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Beside the famous Huguenot decimation, the plot contains murders by poisoning, court intrigues and several attempts of murder.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Margot kept rather grisly souvenir.
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* ClosetShuffle: Once Margot hide her ''husband'' and her ''lover'' in the same cabinet
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Coconnas and La Mole need to fight twice before they achieve friendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre]].
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]],
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree.
* TheMistress: And a real nice one
* NiceToTheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffWithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Coconnas and La Mole]] took the fall for [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]].
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
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La Reine Margot (A.K.A "Queen Margot", "Marguerite de Valois") is a novel written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père, whose previous works include TheCountOfMonteCristo and TheThreeMusketeers.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Beside the famous Huguenot decimation, the plot contains murders by poisoning, court intrigues and several attempts of murder.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Margot kept rather grisly souvenir.
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* ClosetShuffle: Once Margot hide her ''husband'' and her ''lover'' in the same cabinet
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Coconnas and La Mole need to fight twice before they achieve friendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre]].
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]],
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree.
* TheMistress: And a real nice one
* NiceToTheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffWithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Coconnas and La Mole]] took the fall for [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]].
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Beside the famous Huguenot decimation, the plot contains murders by poisoning, court intrigues and several attempts of murder.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick: Margot kept rather grisly souvenir.
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* ClosetShuffle: Once Margot hide her ''husband'' and her ''lover'' in the same cabinet
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Coconnas and La Mole need to fight twice before they achieve friendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre]].
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]],
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree.
* TheMistress: And a real nice one
* NiceToTheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffWithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Coconnas and La Mole]] took the fall for [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]].
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: The dresses are almost CostumePorn.
* Nonetheless, this film is in the gritty side of the SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty.
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
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During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, the throne of France had several suitors and every one try their hardest to keep it. Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, marries Henry de Navarre. Navarre to bring peace to this chaotic country. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with TheLover La Mole, a noble Huguenot, who was saved by her during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
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In the wake of the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son, the future Henry III on the throne threatens the lives of La Mole, Margot and Henri.
In the wake of the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son, the future Henry III on the throne threatens the lives of La Mole, Margot and Henri.
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During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of the deceased Henry II and the infamous scheming Catholic power player Catherine de' Medici, marries Henry de Navarre. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with the soldier TheLover La Mole, who is at was saved by her during the service the Duke of Alençon.
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La Reine Margot (Eng "Queen Margot") is a novel written in 1845 by AlexandreDumas, père, whose previous works include TheCountofMonteCristo and TheThreeMusketeers.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of the deceased Henry II and the infamous scheming Catholic power player Catherine de' Medici, marries Henry de Navarre. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with the soldier La Mole, who is at the service the Duke of Alençon.
In the wake of the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son, the future Henry III on the throne threatens the lives of La Mole, Margot and Henri.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* DefeatMeansFriendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre.]]
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]]
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree
* NicetotheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffwithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees
* TheScapegoat
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting
* GorgeousPeriodDress
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
During the reign of Charles IX and the French Wars of Religion, Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of the deceased Henry II and the infamous scheming Catholic power player Catherine de' Medici, marries Henry de Navarre. Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with the soldier La Mole, who is at the service the Duke of Alençon.
In the wake of the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son, the future Henry III on the throne threatens the lives of La Mole, Margot and Henri.
It has two sequels, which are much less well known: La Dame de Monsoreau and Les Quarante-Cinq.
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* AlasPoorYorick
* BetaCouple: The duchesse de Nevers and Coconnas fill the spot, but they are less peaceful than Margot and La Mole.
* DefeatMeansFriendship
* FingerLickingPoison: a poisoned book is used in attempt on King Henry of Navarre's life, but the plan backfires with disastrous results. Earlier in the same novel, even more devious plan to poison Henry via his paramour's lipstick is employed [[spoiler: but thwarted by the would-be poisoner who couldn't murder said paramour in cold blood]].
* GambitPileup: Henry of Navarre is the center of all plans of the French royal court: the King trying to destroy their religion, the queen mother trying to ruin his marriage, and the Duke of Alençon trying to take his kingdom.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: They don't call the Duke of Guisa "Le Balafré" (Scarface) for nothing.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Possibly Dumas was influenced too much by the propaganda against Catherine of Medici. In the book she didn't stop short of murder to help her son Henri.
* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Charles IX]] would have died in such an accident, if it wasn't for [[spoiler:Henry of Navarre.]]
* WigDressAccent: It's amazing how far a cherry-colored cloak can take you.
* MasterPoisoner:
** [[spoiler:Réné the Florentine]]
** and [[spoiler:Queen Catherine]], to some degree
* NicetotheWaiter: and Maître Caboche remember it.
* OffwithHisHead!: The last favor of M. de Coconnas' friend.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: All the Queen Catherine's children fit the trope in different degrees
* TheScapegoat
!!1994 Adaptation include:
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2650774784/tt0110963 Right in the poster]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain treatise on hunting
* GorgeousPeriodDress
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty
* VillainousIncest: the titular Marguerite de Valois having sex with her brothers and their brother Anjou being in love with their mother, Catherine de' Medici. The whole incestuous lot is pretty villainous with atrocities, backstabbing, and poisonings under their belt, though a couple of them are more ambiguous including Margot herself.
