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La Reine Margot

Date

20 November

Category
Historical Drama
About This Project

The film begins with the Catholic Margot (Isabelle Adjani) reluctantly marrying the Huguenot King Henri of Navarre (who should be 19, but is played by the 44-year-old Daniel Auteuil). In the film, as in real life, this causes trouble. The inter-faith match has been fixed by Margot’s mother Catherine de’Medici played brilliantly by Virna Lisi who has thoughtfully murdered Henri’s mother as a wedding gift. Historians generally regard the story that Catherine sent Jeanne of Navarre a pair of poisoned gloves as fiction.