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Queen Margot
FRANCE · 1994

Queen Margot

Patrice Chéreau
religious conflict political marriage dynastic intrigue St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre forbidden love
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Synopsis

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

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