Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
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- Preface
- Ch. 1: Childhood and Marriage (1491-1515)
- Ch. 2: The Young King and his Rivals (1515-1520)
- Ch. 3: The Affair of Meaux (1520-1523), Pt. 1
- Ch. 3: The Affair of Meaux (1520-1523), Pt. 2
- Ch. 4: Constable Bourbon (1521-1524)
- Ch. 5: Sequels (1524-1525)
- Ch. 6: The Captivity (1525), Pt. 1
- Ch. 6: The Captivity (1525), Pt. 2
- Ch. 7: Queen of Navarre (1525-1530)
- Ch. 8: Nérac in 1530
- Ch. 9: The Sorbonne (1529-1535), Pt. 1
- Ch. 9: The Sorbonne (1529-1535), Pt. 2
- Ch. 10: Changes (1536-1538)
- Ch. 11: A False Step (1539-1540)
- Ch. 12: A League with Soliman (1541-1543)
- Ch. 13: The 'Heptameron.'--I. (1544), Pt. 1
- Ch. 13: The 'Heptameron.'--I. (1544), Pt. 2
- Ch. 14: The 'Heptameron.'--II. (1544), Pt. 1
- Ch. 14: The 'Heptameron.'--II. (1544), Pt. 2
- Ch. 15: Downfall (1544-1545)
- Ch. 16: Nérac in 1545
- Ch. 17: Death of the King (1545-1547)
- Ch. 18: The End (1547-1549), Pt. 1
- Ch. 18: The End (1547-1549), Pt. 2
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was highly-educated and was courted by the future Henry VIII of England. However, at the age of seventeen, she was married by royal decree to the untutored dolt, Charles IV of Alençon. After his death she wed Henry II of Navarre by whom she had a daughter (the mother of the future Henry IV of France) and a son, who died in infancy. The author takes us with Margaret on her perilous journey over the Pyrenees to Spain to attempt to free her brother, Francis, held captive by the Holy Roman Emperor. Margaret's support for the first stirrings of the Reformation in France alarmed the Catholic conservatives of the Sorbonne. Her cycle of short stories, the "Heptameron," is still read and enjoyed today. (Pamela Nagami)
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