Queen Margot: A Play in Five Acts. Александр Дюма

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      BORGO PRESS BOOKS BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS

      Anthony

      The Barricade at Clichy; or, The Fall of Napoleon

      Bathilda

      Caligula

      The Corsican Brothers (with Eugène Grangé & Xavier de Montépin)

      The Count of Monte Cristo, Part One: The Betrayal of Edmond Dantès

      The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Two: The Resurrection of Edmond Dantès

      The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Three: The Rise of Monte Cristo

      The Count of Monte Cristo, Part Four: The Revenge of Monte Cristo

      A Fairy Tale (with Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lhérie)

      The Gold Thieves (with Countess Céleste de Chabrillan)

      Kean

      The Last of the Three Musketeers; or, The Prisoner of the Bastille (Musketeers #3)

      Lorenzino

      The Mohicans of Paris

      Napoléon Bonaparte

      Queen Margot

      Richard Darlington (with Prosper Dinaux)

      Sylvandire

      The Three Musketeers (Musketeers #1)

      The Three Musketeers—Twenty Years Later (Musketeers #2)

      The Tower of Death (with Frédéric Gaillardet)

      The Two Dianas (with Paul Meurice)

      Urbain Grandier and the Devils of Loudon

      The Venetian

      The Whites and the Blues

      The Widow’s Husband; and, Porthos in Search of an Outfit

      Young Louix XIV

      Related Dramas:

      The Queen’s Necklace, by Pierre Decourcelle

      The Seed of the Musketeers, by Paul de Kock & Guénée (Musketeers #5)

      The San Felice, by Maurice Drack

      The Son of Porthos the Musketeer, by Émile Blavet (Musketeers #4)

      A Summer Night’s Dream, Adolphe de Leuven & Joseph-Bernard Rosier

      The Widow’s Husband; and, Porthos in Search of an Outfit: Two Dumasian Comedies, edited by Frank J. Morlock

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      Copyright © 2000, 2013 by Frank J. Morlock

      Published by Wildside Press LLC

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      DEDICATION

      To Conrad: yet another project that would never have seen the light of day without your support.

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      Henry of Navarre

      Charles IX

      La Môle

      Coconnas

      Duke d’Alençon

      La Hurière

      Caboche

      De Mouy

      René

      Maureval

      Friguet

      Jailor

      The Governor

      A Huguenot

      A Judge

      Catherine de Medici

      Marguerite

      Madame de Nevers

      Madame de Sauve

      The Nurse

      Jolyette

      Gilonne

      Mica

      ACT I, SCENE 1

      A square in Paris. To the right, the hostel of La Hurière with rooms opening on the street level, and on the first floor. To the left, the hotel of Admiral Coligny with a balcony. In the center, the dwelling of Moncey. On each side of this dwelling a street facing the audience and losing itself in the distance.

      LA HURIÈRE

      (at his door, seeing Maureval who enters from the left)

      Ah! Come here, Lord Maureval, come here.

      MAUREVAL

      I am here!

      LA HURIÈRE

      Do you know who is there opposite us?

      MAUREVAL

      At the Admiral’s home?

      LA HURIÈRE

      Yes, at the Admiral’s—King Charles IX.

      MAUREVAL

      What of it?

      LA HURIÈRE

      What’s he doing at the home of this anti-Christ?

      MAUREVAL

      By God! To give him the kiss of Judas. It is important that he suspect nothing. He is the God of those damned Huguenots and today he controls 10,000 swords, perhaps.

      LA HURIÈRE

      Then nothing is changed, despite this visit?

      MAUREVAL

      Nothing.

      LA HURIÈRE

      And is it still for tonight?

      MAUREVAL

      Without fail!

      LA HURIÈRE

      At what time?

      MAUREVAL