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QUEEN MARGOT
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France is torn apart
by the Wars of Religion.
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Catholics and Protestants
have been fighting for years.
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King Charles lX always let his mother,
Catherine de Medici, rule.
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But today the Protestant leader,
Admiral Coligny, has the King's trust:
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the entire country might
switch over to the new religion.
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To quench the hatred, Catherine
sets up an alliance for peace:
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she marries her daughter Margot
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to Henri of Navarre,
her Protestant cousin.
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A political scheme
that everybody sees through.
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But Coligny wants war with
Catholic Spain. He must be stopped.