The French Queen Mother Catherine used a political marriage to trap King Henry of Navarre and his Protestant forces to create the St. Bartholomew Massacre.
But the religious wars were ultimately in the service of court struggles, and Queen Margo and her lover Larmor became political victims.
Margot herself is a French princess. Many people mistakenly think that she is the queen of France. In fact, it was the political marriage that caused her to escape back to Navarra (now the autonomous region of northern Spain) with her husband and became the queen of Navarra.
These are not really important. My focus is on the distribution of rights. With a little analysis, I can grasp the relationship between religion and imperial politics at that time. The root cause of the incompatibility between Catholicism and Protestantism in that period was actually the superiority and inferiority of imperial power and theocratic power, as well as the fact that within the religion, the rights among Christ, the Church, and the Pope were unreal.
Conclusion: Faith is put aside first, all struggles revolve around power, and the tools can be various. Instead, I think religious massacres are not the best tools. It all stems from the inability of Catherine herself and her favorite son to be in power.
The Huguenot War was like a wheel, running over three kings, three brothers, François II, Charles IX, and Henry III, all of whom were Margot's brothers.
The "Queen Margo" written by Alexandre Dumas is to the Huguenot War, just as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is to "Three Kingdoms", and literature is to historiography. The movie "Queen Margo" is based on the novel (I haven't read the original).
However, the scale of the film is large, and it is not suitable for people under the age of 30.
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