Memoires et autres ecrits. Margueri...

Memoires et autres ecrits. Marguerite De Valois. ed Eliane Viennot. Paris: Champion, 1999 364 pp Euro5120

"Those whose knowledge of Marguerite de Valois is based solely forward [the] film [La Reine Margot] do not understand the importance of her autobiographical Memoires as a primary historical document of the years between 1559 and 1581 an especially violent period during the French civil war. Marguerite de Valois wrote her autobiography between 1593 and 1603 while she was living in forced exile in Usson after her separation from her husband. Eliane Viennot has carefully