La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action and the engaging g

Everyone tries to pigeonhole France. The vast numbers who go there on holiday or who discuss the French from across the Channel and Atlantic produce judgments which express anything from adulation to ill-tempered irritation. France and the French, it seem

421pages. in8. Broché. "Je suis entrée dans la vie sexuelle adulte comme, petite fille, je m'engouffrais dans le tunnel du train fantôme, à l'aveugle, pour le plaisir d'être ballottée et saisie au hasard", déclare la narratrice. En quatre chapitres ? le n