Margaret of Navarre

noun

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

Margaret of Navarre

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)

Example Sentences

Margaret of Navarre, § 120, 6; 146, 4.

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"A delightful work," said the handsome girl, who became famous as la Fosseuse, when she was lady-in-waiting to Queen Margaret of Navarre.

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These conditions, which imply the most extreme simplicity, are present in all the greatest short stories known to us—the best works of the author of the Contes Nouvelles, of Sacchetti, Boccaccio, Margaret of Navarre, Hoffman, Poe, and De Maupassant.

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The literature of the century contains besides the names of Rabelais as well as Calvin in France, Baldassare Castiglione, Michelangelo, Vasari, Politian, Bembo, Lorenzo de' Medici, Pico della Mirandola and the learned ladies Vittoria Colonna, Margaret of Navarre, Lucretia Tornabuoni, the mother of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the great scholars of the period in Italy.

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The most important writer in France at this time, however, was undoubtedly Francis' sister, Margaret of Navarre or Angoul�me.

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