Margaret of Navarre

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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

Antoine le Macon, secretary to Margaret of Navarre.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds

She could truly say with Queen Margaret of Navarre: "I have borne more than my share of the weariness which is the common lot of man."

From The Court of the Empress Josephine by Thomas Sergeant Perry

While belonging ostensibly to the literary circle of Margaret of Navarre, Marot appears to have combined in his own person a strange number of conflicting tendencies.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg

The first is that it is a comparatively feeble imitation of a great original, and that any one who knows Boccaccio need hardly trouble himself to know Margaret of Navarre.

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

That cannot be said of Queen Margaret of Navarre, who carries on the tradition of the Novellieri, and is represented in Painter by some of her best stories.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter