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La Regina Margot e un romanzo storico scritto da Alexandre Dumas (padre) e pubblicato originariamente come romanzo dappendice a puntate.La storia inizia il 18 agosto del 1572. Per ragioni di pacificazione religiosa, Margherita di Valois, sorella del re cattolico Carlo IX di Francia, viene data in moglie al capo degli ugonotti, Enrico re di Navarra. Migliaia di protestanti affluiscono a Parigi per loccasione. La notte stessa delle nozze Margherita, riceve in camera il proprio amante duca di Guisa, ma si presenta anche il marito.Lopera ha contribuito a rinforzare la leggenda nera di Caterina de Medici e la reputazione scandalosa di sua figlia Margherita di Valois, che proprio grazie a questo romanzo verra ricordata con il soprannome di "regina Margot".

Inspirada en una vivència real, la història de la relació entre Marguerite Gautier, la prostituta de luxe tísica, i el jove burgès Armand Duval s’ha convertit al llarg del temps en un dels grans monu

Don Quijote no llegó a leer El Conde de Montecristo. Fue una lástima, porque le habría colmado la medidas. No hay novela de caballería que pueda ofrecer lo que esta sólida novela de aventuras. Naufragios, mazmorras, fugas, ejecuciones, asesinatos, traiciones, envenenamientos, suplantaciones de personalidad, un niño enterrado vivo, una joven resucitada, catacumbas, contrabandistas, bandoleros, tesoros, amorios, reveses de fortuna, golpes de teatro, todo para crear una atmosfera irreal, extraordinaria, fantastica, a la medida del superhombre que se mueve en ella. Y todo ello arropado en una novela de costumbres, digna de medirse con las contemporaneas de Balzac.

Aprovechando el auge de la novela histórica, las aportaciones eruditas del historiador Auguste Maquet y su propia capacidad de fabulación, tejió Dumas la peripecia de Los tres mosqueteros —que, como

Monsieur de Guises LatinThe Queen of Navarres Bedchamber.The Poet-kingThe Evening of the 24th of August, 1572Of the Louvre in Particular, and Of Virtue in GeneralThe Debt PaidThe Night of the 24th of August, 1572The MassacreThe MurderersDeath, Mass, Or the BastilleThe Hawthorn of the Cemetery of The InnocentsMutual ConfidencesHow There Are Keys Which Open Doors They Are Not Meant forThe Second Marriage NightWhat Woman Wills, God WillsA Dead Enemys Body Always Smells SweetMaitre Ambroise Pares ConfrereThe GhostsThe Abode of Maitre Rene, Perfumer To the Queen MotherThe Black HensMadame de Sauves Apartment"sire, You Shall Be King"A New ConvertThe Rue Tizon and the Rue Cloche PerceeThe Cherry-colored CloakMargaritaThe Hand of GodThe Letter From RomeThe DepartureMaurevelThe HuntFraternityThe Gratitude of King Charles IXMan Proposes But God DisposesA Night of KingsThe AnagramThe Return To the LouvreThe Girdle of the Queen MotherProjects of RevengeThe AtridesThe HoroscopeConfidencesThe AmbassadorsOrestes and PyladesOrthonThe Inn of la Belle EtoileDe Mouy de Saint PhaleTwo Heads for One CrownThe Treatise on HuntingHawkingThe Pavilion of François IThe ExaminationActeonThe Forest of VincennesThe Figure of WaxThe Invisible BucklersThe JudgesThe Torture of the BootThe ChapelThe Place Saint Jean En GreveThe Headsmans TowerThe Sweat of BloodThe Donjon of the Prison of VincennesThe RegencyThe King Is Dead! Long Live The King!Epilogue

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the third and last of the dArtagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. In the English translations, the 268 chapters of this large volume are usually subdivided into three, but sometimes four or even five individual books. In three-volume English editions the volumes are entitled The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask. Each volume is roughly the length of the original The Three Musketeers. In four-volume editions volume names remain except that Louise de la Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask move from second and third volumes to third and fourth, with Ten Years Later becoming the second volume. There are usually no volume-specific names in five-volume editions.

ALTHOUGH the introductory chapters were not signed until May 31st, 1856, The Wolf-Leader is to be associated in conception with the group of romances which Dumas wrote at Brussels between the years 1852 and 1854, that is to say, after his financial failure and the consequent defection of his collaborator Maquet, and before his return to Paris to found his journal Le Mousquetaire. Like Conscience lInnocent and Catherine Blum, which date from that period of exile, the present story was inspired by reminiscences of our authors native placeVillers-Cotterets, in the department of the Aisne.In The Wolf-Leader Dumas, however, allows his imagination and fancy full play. Using a legend told to him nearly half a century before, conjuring up the scenes of his boyhood, and calling into requisition his wonderful gift of improvisation, he contrives in the happiest way to weave a romance in which are combined a weird tale of diablerie and continual delightful glimpses of forest life. Terror, wood-craft, and humour could not be more felicitously intermingled. The reader, while kept under the spell of the main theme of the story, experiences all the charm of an open-air life in the great forest of Villers-Cotteretsthe forest in which the little town seemed to occupy a small clearing, and into which the boy Alexandre occasionally escaped for days together from the irksome routine of the school or from the hands of relatives who wanted to make a priest of him.Thus Dumas, the most impressionable of men, all his life remained grateful to the forest for the poetic fancies derived from its beauty and the mysteries of its recesses, as well as for the hiding-places it afforded him, and for the game and birds which he soon learnt to shoot and snare there. Listen to his indignation at the destruction of the trees in the neighbouring park. We quote from his Memoirs:"That park, planted by François I., was cut down by Louis Philippe.

The Regents Daughter - Une Fille du Régent - is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, written in 1845, and later adapted as a "serio-comic" play in five acts. It has sometimes been subtitled as a se

Captain RoquefinetteThe MeetingThe ChevalierA Bal-Masque of the Period.--The BatThe ArsenalThe Prince de CellamareAlberoniThe GarretA Citizen of the Rue du Temps-PerduThe AgreementPros and ConsThe Denis FamilyThe Crimson RibbonThe Rue des bons EnfantsJean BuvatBathildeFirst LoveThe Consul DuiliusThe Abbe DuboisThe ConspiracyThe Order of the Honey BeeThe Queen of the GreenlandersThe Duc de RichelieuJealousyA PretextCounterplotsThe Seventh HeavenFenelons SuccessorThe Prince de Listhnays AccompliceThe Fox and GooseA Chapter of Saint-SimonA SnareThe Beginning of the EndParliamentary JusticeMan ProposesDavid and GoliathThe Savior of FranceGod DisposesA Prime Ministers MemoryBonifaceThe Three VisitsThe ClosetThe Marriage in ExtremisPostscriptum