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Margaret of Angoulême |
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Margaret of Angoulême: see Margaret of Navarre Margaret of Navarre (nəvär`) or Margaret of Angoulême ..... Click the link for more information. . Margaret of Angoulêmeor Margaret of Navarra French Marguerite d'Angoulême(born April 11, 1492, Angoulême, France—died Dec. 21, 1549, Odos-Bigorre) Queen consort of Henry II of Navarra and an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. She was the daughter of the count d'Angoulême. When her brother Francis I acceded to the crown in 1515, she became highly influential in his court. After her first husband died, she married Henry in 1525. She was noted as a patron of humanists and reformers and of such writers as François Rabelais. She was a writer and poet herself; her most important work was the Heptaméron, 72 tales modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron and published posthumously in 1558–59. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 1505), "vraisemblablement le premier traite de la Renaissance sur l'education d'une princesse" (139), an edition of which was published for Marguerite de Navarre in 1535. The Renaissance dialogue (Erasmus, Castiglione, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne) may have error both as subject matter and as a model for its own labyrinthine proceeding (chap. Hampton's book is composed of a series of close readings of encounters with other nations/cultures in major works of such key French Renaissance writers as Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Joachim du Bellay, and Montaigne and focuses on the consequences of such encounters for the representation of community and for the relationship of literary form to national identity. |
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