Alexandre Dumas. Queen Margot (№ 339636)

Never had such an enthusiastic reception so deservedly, as the Queen of Navarre. The Margarita was barely twenty years old, and already all the poets sang her praises; some have compared her to Aurora, others Liferea. The beauty she had no equal even here, in this yard, where Catherine de Medici tried to pick up on the role of its sirens, the most beautiful women he could find. She had black hair, amazing complexion, sensual eyes with long eyelashes, penciled scarlet mouth, slender neck, luxury slender body and small, children's feet in satin shoes. The French were proud that their native soil grew this amazing flower, and the foreigners, having been in France, returned to his home dazzled by the beauty of Margaret, if they were able to see her, and amazed her education if they were able to talk to her. In fact, Margaret was not only beautiful but also the most educated woman of her time; that is why often recalled the words of one Italian scientist which was presented and which, after talking with her for an hour in Italian, Spanish, Greek and Latin, excited said: "to Attend at the court without seeing Marguerite de Valois, then not see nor France, nor the French court".