Marguerite de Valois. The story of a woman, the story of a myth

Margarita Valua is "Queen Margo". In any case, so we call it today, thinking that it"s well familiar with her.
This historical figure has become a character legend long before Alexander Duma. He gave her this nickname, but his heroine had very little common with a woman-politician, a clever diplomat, a writer, an erudite, a patron and an incredibly combat sovereign, which was actually the last daughter of Catherine Medici and the first wife of King Heinrich IV. Therefore, in order to get an idea of ​​her complex personality and understand the meaning of her historical decisions, it took to truly rewrite her biography.
But the story of Margarita is also the history of the unusually wide distribution of texts about it for four centuries, marked by the preferences of their authors - so different as Ronsar, Brant, Shakespeare, Agrippa d"Nine, Cardinal Richelieu, Voltaire, Merim, Standal ... On this particular example, you can see the main principle for which the story is written, knowledge is transmitted, images are distorted and myths arise