Margaret of Navarre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Her brilliant court at Navarre was frequented by literary men, among them Etienne Dolet, Clement Marot, and Francois Rabelais. A writer herself, she is best known for the Heptameron (1558), an original collection of 72 stories in the...