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Margot
Margot Margot carries the vivacious energy and aristocratic insouciance of French feminine style — the name of queens who broke rules and artists who defied convention. In contemporary French fiction, Margot tends to belong to women of effortless confidence and a certain charming unpredictability, as comfortable at a Parisian dinner party as at the center of historical intrigue.
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la Reine Margot
La Reine Margot — Alexandre Dumas
The beautiful and politically astute Queen of Navarre whose marriages and intrigues amid the Wars of Religion provide the backdrop for Dumas's historical drama.
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