Marguerite de Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême was born #OTD in 1492.
She was a significant figure in the cultural and political landscape of 16th-century France. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Marguerite's most famous work is "The Heptameron," a collection of short stories similar in style to Boccaccio's "Decameron."
Books by Marguerite de Navarre at PG:
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