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Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France at her husband's 1589 accession to the latter throne as Henry IV.
Dec 9, 1994 · Queen Margot: Directed by Patrice Chéreau. With Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez. Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants.
An abridged version of the film was released as Queen Margot in North America, and in the United Kingdom under its original French title. It won the Jury Prize and Best Actress Award (Lisi) at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as five César Awards.
Queen Margot or La Reine Margot may refer to: Margaret of Valois (1553–1615), queen consort of Navarre and later also of France. La Reine Margot (novel), 1845 French novel by Alexandre Dumas about Margaret of Valois.
May 10, 2024 · Margaret Of Valois was the queen consort of Navarre known for her licentiousness and for her Mémoires, a vivid exposition of France during her lifetime. The daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de Médicis, she played a secondary part in the Wars of Religion (1562–98) from the moment she.
Dec 16, 1994 · When I saw "Queen Margot" for the first time in May 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival, it was like looking at the home movies of complete strangers - in this case, the French.
Catherine de Médicis, the power behind the Catholic throne of her son Charles IX, arranges an apparently peace-making marriage between her unwilling daughter Margot and the Protestant Henri de Navarre.
Jul 3, 2019 · Margaret of Valois was the third daughter and seventh child of King Henry II of France and his Italian queen, Catherine de’ Medici. She was born at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where she spent her childhood alongside her sisters, the princesses Elisabeth and Claude.
French princess and queen of Navarre who was the sister of three French kings and the first wife of Henry of Navarre, the future King Henry IV.
May 20, 2014 · As it turns out, Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi), Margot's mother and the real power behind the throne, essentially threw her daughter into the marriage as part of an elaborate plot to decimate the visiting Protestants, solidify her power and ensure the ascension of her favorite son, the hateful Duke of Anjou (Pascal Greggory) by launching a ...
