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A character in Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas

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I now know that some one is concealed here--that you are an unfaithful wife, but a faithful ally; and just now, I confess, I have more need of fidelity in politics than in love.

— Henri de Navarre (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)

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