Margaret of Navarre

American  

noun

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

---

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)

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Margaret of Navarre

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 Perry, Thomas Sergeant

Even the charming and elegant Margaret of Navarre found it quite natural for a lady to mention incidentally to her lover that she had not washed her hands for a week.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

The latter, from its pointed reference to Quintin and Pocquet, two notorious leaders, seems to have given offence to Margaret of Navarre, by whom they had been harbored in ignorance of their true character.

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

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.

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