Marguerite de Valois: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Marguerite de Valois, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas. Read in English by John Van Stan A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous schemes of the Catholic power player, Catherine de Medici. - Summary by Publisher

Recording facts

• Recording title: Marguerite de Valois
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 20:34:12

Catalogue topics

• french wars of religion
• queen margot
• catherine de medici
• valois dynasty
• valois romances
• peace of st germain
• st bartholomew's day massacre

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 01 - Monsieur de Guise's Latin — 28:29
2. 02 - The Queen of Navarre's Bedchamber — 24:12
3. 03 - The Poet-King — 24:58
4. 04 - The Evening of the 24th of August, 1572 — 16:47
5. 05 - Of the Louvre in Particular, and of Virtue in General — 18:52
6. 06 - The Debt Paid — 22:02
7. 07 - The Night of the 24th of August, 1572 — 30:15
8. 08 - The Massacre — 22:20
9. 09 - The Murderers — 28:01
10. 10 - Death, Mass, or the Bastille — 27:51
11. 11 - The Hawthorn of the Cemetery of the Innocents — 23:00
12. 12 - Mutual Confidences — 16:07
13. 13 - How There Are Keys Which Open Doors They Are Not Meant For — 21:49
14. 14 - The Second Marriage Night — 18:36
15. 15 - What Woman Wills, God Wills — 31:44
16. 16 - A Dead Enemy's Body Always Smells Sweet — 25:39
17. 17 - Maitre Ambroise Pare's Confrere — 15:48
18. 18 - The Ghosts — 20:02
19. 19 - The Abode of Maitre Rene, Perfumer to the Queen Mother — 25:58
20. 20 - The Black Hens — 14:32
21. 21 - Madame de Sauve's Apartment — 19:40
22. 22 - "Sire, You Shall be King" — 12:03
23. 23 - A New Convert — 27:11
24. 24 - The Rue Tizon and the Rue Cloche Percee — 24:35

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