A.Dumas’s famous novel, the first in the trilogy about the era of Henry III and Henry of Navarre. The events of the novel take place during the religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots. The early steps toward the throne of the young Prince Henry of Navarre, the confrontation between his young wife Margot and the treacherous intrigue-maker Catherine de Medici. Court life with its plots and secrets, the bloody events of the St. Bartholomew’s Night—this is the framework of this captivating book.