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Margaret of Angouleme (sh) and Aelius (as used in expressions) (sh)


Margaret of Angouleme (sh)




or Margaret of Navarra French Marguerite d'Angouleme

born April 11, 1492, Angouleme, France
died Dec. 21, 1549, Odos-Bigorre

Queen consort of Henry II of Navarra and an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance.

She was the daughter of the count d'Angouleme. When her brother Francis I acceded to the crown in 1515, she became highly influential in his court. After her first husband died, she married Henry in 1525. She was noted as a patron of humanists and reformers and of such writers as Fran?ois Rabelais. She was a writer and poet herself; her most important work was the Heptameron, 72 tales modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron and published posthumously in 1558-59.


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