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  

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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 Symonds, John Addington

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

Would that he had been free to rule as his own disposition and that of his evangelical consort, Margaret of Navarre, would have prompted!

From The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys by Worsfold, J. N. (John Napper)

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 Greg, Walter W.

Catherine de Médici was the mother of Charles IX., whose sister, Margaret of Navarre, married Henry of Navarre.

From The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine by Roosevelt, Wyn