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Marguerite de Navarre

1492 - 1549

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Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite de Navarre is the 323rd most popular writer (up from 463rd in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from France (up from 547th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Writer.

Marguerite de Navarre is most famous for her work, The Heptameron, which is a collection of stories about love and lust.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 323 out of 7,302. Before her are Antonin Artaud, Doris Lessing, Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, and Italo Calvino. After her are Nadine Gordimer, Paul Celan, Colette, Anne Brontë, André Malraux, and William Golding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1492, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 1. After her are Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Pietro Aretino, Juan Luis Vives, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Elizabeth Tudor, Andrea Alciato, John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, Sabina of Bavaria, Jean du Bellay, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Adam Ries. Among people deceased in 1549, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 2. Before her is Pope Paul III. After her are Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Il Sodoma, Giampietrino, Christine of Saxony, Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, Aelbrecht Bouts, Elia Levita, and Matsudaira Hirotada.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 373 out of 6,770. Before her are Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), Claude of France (1499), and René Goscinny (1926). After her are Jean Renoir (1894), Jeanne d'Albret (1528), Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Colette (1873), and André Malraux (1901).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Marguerite de Navarre ranks 58. Before her are J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), Antonin Artaud (1896), Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), and Henri Charrière (1906). After her are Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Ève Curie (1904), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Paul Valéry (1871), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732).

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