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In giving my sister Margot to Henry of Navarre, I give my sister to all the Protestants of the kingdom.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Death, mass, or the Bastille!

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

Well, then, I am not of your opinion; a dead enemy's corpse always smells sweet.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

You can always weep when you wish to; but I, at the moment of my greatest sorrows, am always forced to smile.

— Charles IX (dialogue) · Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot (1845), anonymous English translation published as Marguerite de Valois (1900)

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