In this inventive and compelling novel, Dumas brings an extraordinary period of history vividly to life with much excitement and romance. The wedding brings noblemen from all over the world to Paris resulting in the notorious Saint Bartholomew Massacre, where thousands of Protestants are killed. Several important political events have led up to this marriage including the mysterious murder of Henri de Navarre's mother, cleverly plotted by Catherine de Medici. Henri de Navarre is a Protestant who later will become the beloved King Henri IV. Marguerite is King Charles' sister and the daughter of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, all firm Catholics.
Queen Margot begins in 1572 with the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henri de Navarre. Roxane realizes that it is Cyrano she loves, and he dies content.The last years of King Charles IX's reign in France were dominated by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. As he is dying years later, he visits Roxane and recites one of the love letters. Cyrano remains silent about his own part in Roxane’s courtship. Eventually Christian recognizes that Roxane loves him for Cyrano’s qualities, not his own, and he asks Cyrano to confess his identity to Roxane Christian then goes off to a battle that proves fatal. Secretly in love with the lovely Roxane, Cyrano agrees to help his inarticulate rival, Christian, win her heart by allowing him to present Cyrano’s love poems, speeches, and letters as his own work. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because he has an enormous nose. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose.
Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year.
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