Marguerite de Valois, Reine de Navarre ("La reine Margot")

1 page, c.30 x 38cm, on vellum, Agen (Aquitaine), 28 February 1584, inscribed and signed by the scribe on the fold-over, contemporary endorsement and later inscriptions on verso, despatch slits, 3 small holes in the text, the document loosely inserted into a copy of H. Noel Williams, Queen Margot, Wife of Henry of Navarre, London & New York: Harper Brothers, 1907, 4to, 16 illustrations, crushed brown morocco gilt by Scroll Club of New York, dark-blue gilt, slipcase

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615) was the first wife of Henry IV of France, popularly known as "la reine Margot" (as in the novel by Dumas and films based on it).  Henry did not ascend to the throne of France until 1589; so at this time Marguerite is styled as "par la Grace de dieu Royne de Navarre Soeur unique de Roy Duchesse de Vallois & Astampes..." etc.