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Marguerite of Navarre

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Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549)

Queen of Navarre from 1527, French poet, and author of the ‘Heptaméron’ (1558), a collection of stories in imitation of Boccaccio's ‘Decameron’. The sister of Francis I of France, she was born in Angoulême. Her second husband (1527) was Henri d'Albret, King of Navarre.



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This is most apparent in her study of Seve, in which she compares his idealization of his love with the work of the religious mystic, Marguerite of Navarre.
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Yet Marot's Lutheranism was distinctly informed by the French evangelical tradition personified by Lefevre d'Etaples and Marguerite of Navarre.
 
 
 
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