Marguerite de Navarre

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Standard Name: Marguerite de Navarre
Birth Name: Marguerite d'Angoulême
Married Name: Marguerite d'Alençon
Titled: Marguerite, duchesse d'Alençon
Married Name: Marguerite de Navarre
Titled: Marguerite, Queen of Navarre
Indexed Name: Margaret [D'Angoulême], Queen Consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
Used Form: Marguerite d'Angouleme
Used Form: Marguerite d'Alencon
Used Form: Marguerite, duchesse d'Alencon
Used Form: Margaret [D'Angouleme], Queen Consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre , a French Renaissance writer of the sixteenth century, is best known for her cycle of tales, L'heptameron. She also wrote important devotional work, poetry and plays based on the bible.
Painting of Marguerite de Navarre by Jean Clouet, probably done for her marriage in 1527. She sits at a green-covered table with a green parrot on her hand and flame-coloured hangings behind. She has a patterned head-dress (perhaps evoking the daisies signified by her name) and a slanted flat hat with Cupid brooch. Her shoulders are bare, her bodice dark, and her huge dark sleeves have slashes showing white below. She is wearing a jewelled pendant, and displays a ring on each little finger.

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AT makes it clear she is no proto-feminist: If women are thought to possess minds less capable of solid reflection than men, they owe this conjecture entirely to their own vanity, and erroneous method of...

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