Valois Romances

Valois Romances is a series of novels novels by Alexandre Dumas. Traditionally, the so-called "Valois Romances" are the three that portray the Reign of Queen Marguerite, the last of the Valois: • La Reine Margot, also published as Marguerite de Valois (1845) • La Dame de Monsoreau (1846) (later adapted as a short story titled, Chicot the Jester) • The Forty-Five Guardsmen (Les Quarante-cinq, 1847) Dumas, however, wrote four more novels that cover this family and portray similar characters, starting with François or Francis I, his son Henry II, and Marguerite and François II, sons of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. • Ascanio (1843) written in collaboration with Paul Meurice. Is a Romance of Francis I (1515–1547), but the main character is Italian artist Benvenuto Cellini. • The Two Dianas (Les Deux Diane, 1846), is a novel about Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, who mortally wounded king Henry II and was lover to his daughter, Diana de Castro. Although published under Dumas's name, it was wholly or mostly written by Paul Meurice. • The Page of the Duke of Savoy (Le Page Du Duc De Savoie, 1855) is a sequel to the Two Dianas (1846), and it covers the struggle for supremacy between the Guises and Catherine de' Medici, the Florentine mother of the last three Valois Kings of France (and wife of Henry II). The main character in this novel is Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. • The Horoscope: a romance of the reign of François II (Histoire d'un horoscope, 1858) covers François II, who reigned one year (1559–1560) and died at the age of 16.