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Article: Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot.".(Book review)

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December 22, 2006
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Eliane Viennot. Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot."

Paris: Editions Perrin, 2005. 664 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. [euro]11. ISBN: 2-262-02377-8.

Highlighting a problem occurring in representing female subjects with public reputations, Antonia Fraser, in Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens (1988), found that she needed to distinguish between the historical person and the often more compelling legend. Her solution was to use the term Boudicca to refer to the Iceni queen who fought against Rome and Boadicea to refer to the myth. Eliane Viennot, in her biography of Marguerite de Valois--youngest daughter of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici and ...

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