Page 1 About the Author
Alexander Dumas (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), born in Villers-Cottelais ( near Paris ) in France , grew up with his mother. In 1823, out of a yearning for theatrical career, Dumas came to Paris alone, first working as a clerical scribe in the Secretariat of the Dukes of Orléans, to solve the problem of his shelter and food.
From an early age, Dumas was an avid writer of drama, and in the comfortable and spacious office of the Duke, he was busy writing the play "Henry III and His Court". Dumas, who was quick-witted, spent the night writing a book. In 1829, the play "Henry III and His Court" came out, and the French theater scene applauded Dumas's debut.
Soon, the play was staged at the Théâtre de Paris. Hugo and numerous Romantic writers went to the theater to see it, and thought that it was a big victory for the Romantics. The play depicts the struggles, deceptions, and conspiracies between kings and reactionary nobles during the French Religious Wars in the 16th century. French literary critics considered The play Henry III and His Court to be the finest play of Dumas's life.
On July 27, 1824, a boy was born with Caterina Rabe. Like his father, the son was named Alexander (Dumas the Younger). Dumas was a French 19th-century Romantic writer. He is a 300-volume book, featuring novels and plays.
Representative works include: Henry III and His Court, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, etc. Most of his novels are set in real history, with twists and turns, often unexpected, and known as historical thrillers. The structure is clear and clear, the language is vivid and powerful, and the dialogue is flexible and witty, which constitute the characteristics of Dumas's novels, and thus are praised by posterity as the "king of popular novels".
Dumas adhered to republican political views and opposed the monarchy. He participated in the "July Revolution" of 1830, the revolution that overthrew the July Dynasty in 1848, and Garibaldi's conquest of the Kingdom of Naples. After a severe loss of memory in 1870 and bedridden, he instructed his family to hire a priest. But when Father Andreyo arrived, he was already unconscious. He died in the arms of his daughter Mary at the age of 68. Dumas's body is temporarily buried in the cemetery of the Nieville Chapel, one kilometer from Diap. A delegation from the Municipal Council of Diap and a number of writers and artists attended the funeral.
On November 30, 2002, his remains arrived in Paris from his hometown and were moved to the Hall of Fame---- the Panthéon in Paris, attended by French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Raffarin. Dumas was the 72nd person to make an extraordinary contribution to France to enter the Panthéon and the sixth French writer to enter the Panthéon after Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Zola and Malraux.
Page 2 Reader Comments
1. Queen Margot is portrayed as wild and uninhibited, even suspected of incest. She supported and protected Henry, King of Navar, in order to preserve her position as queen. But in Dumas's novel, Margot is purified.
2, the love of the court is too much helpless, one is the queen, one is the poor. One is Catholic and the other is Protestant. No matter how deep and deep the love is, it is always impossible to ask for forgiveness from history and fate. The prince of love is destined to be only in dreams, destined to be only moments, and death is his helpless destination. The queen of love is destined to be locked in the court, destined to have only the king as her husband, and loneliness is a cage from which she cannot escape.
3) Margo has been betrayed and betrayed all his life. Her brothers saw her as a tool for sexual disillusionment, her mothers as a political chip, her husbands as a shield for their own protection... Margo had never received a single bit of true love, so she covered her innocent mind with superficial debauchery, and she felt that no one would understand her. In the face of blood, she was never afraid, because she knew that in this superficially luxurious court, there was always a crisis.
Page 3 Background of writing
Set against the backdrop of France's 30-year-long religious wars in the 16th century and centered on the glamorous and politically far-sighted Queen Margaret of the Varroa family, Queen Margo reflects the inside story of the French royal family before and after the Massacre of Saint Bartoromé in 1572.
As we all know, Dumas never wrote novels with the mission of reproducing history, as he himself said: "History is a nail, and I use it to hang my legend." "If we use literary and artistic works to study history, or conversely, require that every plot of the work conforms to historical facts, then it is the opposite."
In the second half of the sixteenth century, France was in the midst of the "Huguenot Wars", with brutal wars between Catholics and Protestants. And the interior of the court was also extravagant and corrupt. In order to quell the civil war, the Catholic French court decided to marry Princess Margaret to Henry, King of Navarre, the leader of the Protestants.
On August 24, 1572, the wedding ceremony was solemnly held in Paris. Just when people are immersed in the atmosphere of joy. Empress Catherine gave the order to launch a bloody massacre against protestants, the famous massacre in Western history, the "Night of St. Bartholomew"...
Page 4 Summary of contents
Margaret was once a French princess, "a unique treasure, a flower that never fades", and later she came to have a notorious name: Queen Margot. When people think of Queen Margot, they say: Her wedding is a hell. The word "hell" is not an adjective. It's a true description. Margot and Henry were in different camps. The union of the two is nothing more than a political marriage, accompanied by a conspiracy. She was completely involuntary, and her life was like duckweed.
When she was 13 years old, several brothers climbed into her bed, and she was weak and isolated, unable to resist. She tried to ask for help like her mother: "My brothers always raped me. Empress Wang did not make a fuss. Margo then understood that for a dynasty, her mother thought it was all a small matter. Margot was 19 years old and entered a laid-out ending, marrying Henry, the 18-year-old heir to the kingdom of Navarre.
From that day on, she became Henry's wife and Queen Margot. They did not love each other, or even strangers, because they were enemies. He and the power behind her are each other's water and fire, and they always want to eliminate each other. And her wedding was planned by Queen Catherine as a protracted conspiracy. On the same day, the royal family felt that the opportunity could not be lost, and went on a killing spree. The screams were incessant. Paris was in a river of blood. This is a real hell on earth. The wedding is recorded in the chronicles as "The Bloody Wedding of Paris". This night is also the infamous "Night of Bartholomew".
On the night of the wedding, Margo walked out of the palace, threw down the groom, threw down the full house of guests, replaced the ring of pearls, and walked through a bush of homeless people. In a corner of the chaotic streets of Paris, meet a handsome young man. She leaned against the parisian wall tiles and faced Larmor. Larmor did not know her name and identity. He only remembered her panting with the blue brocade robe. He called her: Blue Demon.
This sexual encounter is not indulgence, more like rebellion. As a puppet, she has been obedient all her life. Powerless, powerless, possessed only a little beauty, her sex became her only weapon, she could not fight back against anyone. Her famous name actually preceded her floating out of the palace. When people mention her, most of them are followed by a word: lasciviousness.
At this time, Larmor was flourishing. He stood in the streets of Paris and cursed Queen Margot along with the Protestants. "That woman is a prostitute..." "I heard that she was a husband, singing night and night..." But I didn't know that this blue demon who haunted his soul was the one who was added to his evil words. Unbeknownst to Queen Margot, Larmor had another identity: the son of a Protestant leader.
After the massacre began, Larmor stepped into danger, and the hunt against him followed. Covered in blood, wolf-like, under the swords and guns of Catholics, he searched everywhere for a way to survive. He opened the doors and rushed in. One of them, inside stood Margot. Unknowingly, he came to margo's hotel where he had taken refuge.
On the wedding night, he gave her the joy of fish and water. On the night of the massacre, she reciprocated with a life-saving grace. She helped him block the sword and gave him a way to live. When Larmor leaves, he finally learns her identity: Queen Margot. He was shocked, annoyed and happy, and had mixed feelings. Outside the window, there was a crowd of people who were shocked and embarrassed. In the hotel, the heart floated and floated, and the emotions moved and moved. And here, deep within the palace walls, Queen Catherine said, "If you want to kill, you must kill clean!" From 1572 onwards, Henry and Margot were placed under house arrest at the French court.
Later they missed each other and met with the help of the Duchess. When the door opened, there was a dazzling smile, and he embraced her in his arms. Larmor said he had brought 200 Protestants with him to save her husband, Henry, the leader of Protestantism. He thought he was brave and good at war, but he didn't know that once a person has a weak rib, he has a weakness, and his weakness is Margot.
Queen Catherine called in a fortune teller to divinate the fate of the kingdom. The answer frightened and amazed her: there was a vision in the sky. The Valois dynasty will decline. And the French throne will eventually fall to Henry. The queen immediately decided to kill Henry, Margot's husband, by all means. When she failed to ask someone to assassinate her, she found someone to poison her, spilled the insoluble poison juice on a book and put it in Henry's room. But what she did not expect was that her own son, Charles IX, flipped through the book, and he held out his index finger, licked the saliva, and then became severely poisoned, and a few days later, he was bleeding profusely and died in the deep palace of Vincena.
Larmor became a scapegoat for charles IX, unaware of it. He was arrested as the murderer of the king and taken to the execution ground to be beheaded in public. When Margo arrived, he could no longer open his eyes. Margo was so grief-stricken that she didn't know how to cry. She took off the ring, took off the string of beads, held his head, and got into the carriage bound for Navarre to join Henry.
France was no longer her home. This is a prison, it's a place of execution. Dressed in blood and numb, a horseman in the carriage asked her, "Your clothes are covered in blood." She said quietly, "I'll wear it until I get back to smiling." They retrieved the head of their lover, took it to a private chapel in Montmartre, treated it with an incense and buried it...
In 1589, Henry III died. Margot's husband succeeded to the throne as Henry IV. The following year, Henry divorced Margot. She will be displaced for the rest of her life, with no branches to rely on. In Henry's Navarre, she was banished. Back in France, the royal family drove her back. Went to his own fiefdom, and was expelled by the local believers...
With a broken heart and a half-life curse, she sat in a carriage, crossed Paris, and ran toward the distant place of uncertainty. The heavens and the earth were silent, the world was like death in the past, desolate to the point of chilling breath, wave after wave of gushing over, suddenly thick, close, suddenly faded, far away. All sorrow and joy are thousands of miles away. Like a predestined ending, she walked into the legend and left alone. The history books record that she was childless all her life and died alone.
Page 5 Quotes
1. On this morning, the Bishop of Bourbon had already performed the ceremony that was usually held for the French princess on the stage in front of Notre Dame cathedral. This marriage surprised everyone, especially those who saw it more clearly.
2) "Don't worry, my good aunt, I respect you more than I respect the Pope, and I love my sister more than I fear the Pope." I am not a Huguenot, but I am not stupid, and if Mr. Pope pretends to be confused, I will personally lead Margo to church to marry your son. ”
(3) Of particular interest is the fact that King Charles was so resolute in his attitude towards the marriage which would restore peace to his dynasty and attract French Huguenot dignitaries to Paris. Since the bride and groom belonged to different denominations, one Catholic and the other Protestant, they had to write to request the grant of Gregory XIII, who lived in Rome. Because of the delay in obtaining the concession, the now deceased Queen Navarre was very worried.
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