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Daughter of Charles, Count of Angoulême and Louise of Savoy; sister of the King of France, Francis I; wife of Charles, Duke of Alençon and, after his death, wife of Henry II, King of Navarre; grandmother of Henry of Navarre, future Henry IV, King of France. Marguerite is a key figure of the French Renaissance: a skilled politician, a fervent advocate of spiritual reform of the Catholic Church, a patroness of monastic congregations and literary circles, an eminent mystical poetess, and the first French woman to commit her writings to print.
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Marguerite of Navarre, Selected Writings. A Bilingual Edition, ed. Rouben Cholakian, Mary Skemp (Chicago, 2008); The Heptameron, transl. and ed. by P. A. Chilton (London, 1984, 2004); Miroir or glasse of the synneful soule [Miroir de l’âme pécheresse, transl. Elizabeth, Queen of England, 1544, reproduced in fac-simile] (London, 1897); Correspondance (1521–1524), [with Guillaume Briçonnet], ed. Christine Martineau, Michel Veissière, Henry Heller (Genève, 1975–79), 2 vols.
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Miernowski, J. (2018). Navarre, Marguerite Of. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_616-1
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