Margaret of Navarre

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

Antoine le Macon, secretary to Margaret of Navarre.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington

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

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 Painter, William

Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed—howled, you may say.

From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. by Twain, Mark