Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Antoine Caron and François Clouet. The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre, the Louvre in 1572, and Marguerite of Valois married to the Protestant she must protect. The first of Dumas's Valois trilogy and the bloodiest. This edition is bound with a gallery of 50 plates, among them paintings by François Clouet, François Quesnel and Edvard Munch, alongside 7 illustrations restored and coloured for this edition.