* The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts is now located where Marguerite’s beautiful mansion once stood.
* Marguerite always believed the assassination to be the work of her old enemy the duke of Épernon. The evidence for this came from one of Margot’s former servants who claimed to have proof of a connection between the murderer and the duke. But the servant was subsequently confined to a lunatic asylum, and it is generally accepted today that Henry’s killer operated on his own.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Selected Genealogy of the French Royal Family
Introduction: Paris, the Church of Notre-Dame, August 18, 1572
PART I
Margot’s Mother, Catherine de’ Medici 1. “The Queen, My Mother”
2. The King Is Dead, Long Live the King
3. The Queen and the Colloquy
4. A Short War…
5. … And a Long Trip
PART II
Catherine’s Daughter Marguerite de Valois 6. The Flying Squadron
7. Fall from Grace
8. The Marriage Trap
9. Queen Margot
10. Queen of Paris
11. Of Mignons and Mistresses
12. The Great Escape
13. A Royal Hostage
14. Queen of Spies
15. Royal Rivalries
16. Queen of Navarre
PART III
The Rival Queens 17. The Lovers’ War
18. A Royal Scandal
19. The Queen’s Revolt
20. Prisoner of War
21. Three Funerals and a Mass
22. The Return of the Queen
Epilogue
Photos
Acknowledgments
About the Author
By Nancy Goldstone
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © 2015 by Nancy Goldstone
Jacket design by Lauren Harms
Jacket art: (left) Catherine de’ Medici (oil on panel), style of Corneille de Lyon (c. 1500–1575) / Polesden Lacey, Great Bookham, Surrey, UK / The McEwan Collection / National Trust Photographic Library /Derrick E. Witty / Bridgeman Images; (right) Marguerite de Valois c. 1561 (oil on panel), François Clouet (c. 1510–1572) / Musée Condé, Chantilly, France / Giraudon/Bridgeman Images
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