Margaret of Navarre

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noun

1. 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.

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Margaret of Navarre British  

noun

1. Also: Margaret of Angoulême.  1492–1549, queen of Navarre (1544–49) by marriage to Henry II of Navarre; sister of Francis I of France. She was a poet, a patron of humanism, and author of the Heptaméron (1558)

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Margaret of Navarre

Even Margaret of Navarre is accused by the same authority—and he honestly represents the belief of the contemporary reformers—of having yielded to these seductive influences.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Margaret of Navarre, in the Introduction to her frivolous Heptameron, expresses the pious hope that all present have read the Scripture.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Queen Margaret of Navarre frizzed and turned back her abundant locks just as the women of our own day do.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

If the stories then told about the children of Alexander VI and about Margaret of Navarre and Anne Boleyn were true, Mona Lisa was their sister.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

The first printed version of the famous Tales of Margaret of Navarre, issued in Paris in the year 1558, under the title of "Histoires des Amans Fortunez," was extremely faulty and imperfect.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George