to her private life. However, those studies remained marginal and did not affect official texts. Only since the 1990s have some historians, such as Éliane Viennot, Robert J. Sealy and Kathleen Wellman, contributed to rehabilitating the image of the last Valois and to distinguishing between the historical figure of Margaret of Valois and the legend of Queen Margot. However, literary works and cinematographic works, such as La Reine Margot by Patrice Chéreau, have continued to perpetuate the image of an obscene and lustful woman. In literature and fiction The 1845 novel of Alexandre Dumas, père, La Reine Margot, is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding Margaret's marriage to Henry of Navarre. The novel was adapted into film three times, with the 1994 version nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design (Margaret was played by Isabelle Adjani). The main action of William Shakespeare's early comedy Love's Labour's Lost (1594–1595) is possibly based on an attempt at reconciliation made in 1578 between Margaret and Henry. Margaret appears in Jean Plaidy's novel, Myself, My Enemy () a fictional memoir of Queen Henrietta Maria, consort of King Charles I of England. She also features in Plaidy's Catherine de Medici trilogy which focuses on her mother, Catherine de' Medici, mostly in the second book The Italian Woman (), and also in the third book, Queen Jezebel (). Sophie Perinot's 2015 novel Médicis Daughter () covers Margaret's adolescence and the early days of her marriage. Margaret of Valois also has a major role in the Meyerbeer opera Les Huguenots. That was one of the signature roles of the Australian soprano Joan Sutherland, who performed it for her farewell performance for the Australian Opera in 1990. She also appears in the opera comique Le pré aux clercs, by Ferdinand Herold. Margot was portrayed by Rebecca Liddiard in the series finale of the television series Reign. Ancestry See also Henry IV of France's wives and mistresses References Bibliography Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. New York: Lamb, 1912. OCLC 347527. Jacqueline Boucher, Deux épouses et reines à la fin du XVIe siècle: Louise de Lorraine et Marguerite de France, Saint-Étienne, Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 1998, . David Buisseret, Henry IV, King of France, New York: Routledge, 1990. . Cesarina Casanova, Regine per caso. Donne al governo in età moderna, Bari, Editori Laterza,