Marguerite de Navarre

The kids get pulled in too.

11-year-old Elizabeth gives Catherine a New Year's present at the end of 1544, a translation she did herself of a French religious poem by Marguerite of Navarre, all handwritten with an embroidered cover that she stitched herself.

She was 11.

When I was 11, I gave my mom a macaroni necklace.

And he also disposed of fairly large resources from his mother's side of the family.

Jeanne d'Arbray will be familiar to people, well, perhaps her mother will be familiar to people as Marguerite of Navarre, Marguerite d'Angoulême before that.

So sister of François I, fans of Anne Boleyn will recognise the name.

So we've got that important lineage as well.

PREFACE OF THE HEPTAMERON OF THE TALES OF MARGARET, QUEEN OF NAVARRE, VOLUME 1.

THE HEPTAMERON OF THE TALES OF MARGARET, QUEEN OF NAVARRE.

Volume 1 by Margaret of Navarre Translated by George Sainsbury Preface The first printed version of the famous Tales of Margaret of Navarre, issued in Paris in the year 1558, under the title of Histoire des Amants Fortunés, was extremely faulty and imperfect.

It comprised but 67 of the 72 tales written by the royal author, and the editor, Pierre Boésteau, not merely changed the order of those narratives which he did print, but suppressed numerous passages in them, besides modifying much of Margaret's phraseology.

A somewhat similar course was adopted by Claude Gruget, who a year later produced what claimed to be a complete version of the stories, to which he gave the general title of the Heptameron, a name they have ever since retained.

Although he reinstated the majority of the tales in their proper sequence, he still suppressed several of them, and inserted others in their place, and also modified the Queen's language after the fashion set by boestuo despite the imperfections however grugier's version was frequently reprinted down to the beginning of the eighteenth century when it served as the basis of the numerous editions of the heptameron in beau langage as the french phrased it which then began to make their appearance it served moreover in the one or the other form for the English and other translations of the work, and down to our own times, was accepted as the standard version of the Queen of Navarre's celebrated tales.

Although it was known that various contemporary MSS was preserved at the French National Library in Paris, no attempt was made to compare Gruget's faulty version with the originals until the Société des bibliophiles francais entrusted this delicate task to m le roi de lincy whose labors led to some most valuable discoveries enabling him to produce a really authentic version of margaret's admired masterpiece with the suppressed tales restored the omitted passages reinstated and the queen's real language given for the first time in all its simple gracefulness.

It is from the authentic text furnished by M. Leroux de Lindsay that the present translation has been made, without the slightest suppression or abridgment.

Um, and, and she had this weird moment too, where she made like, before she got married, when she was like, you know, you know, finding the right guy, she made friends with an exiled King of Denmark who gave her a golden ring.

So she was an interesting lady.

Like she, she, she, she had her options, I suppose.

Um, um martin luther has a nice quote he says who would have read in the stars that i would cause my father so much trouble and get into an argument in the pope and then take a runaway nun as my wife somehow while i was doing all this other stuff catherine was given to me so just a nice story there now she gets her life is not easy she gets up at 4 30 in the morning which is more common back in the day um i live in a country where they still run in kind of the old ways of things so everyone here gets up at 4 30.

She was making sure people bought Luther's books because Luther was trying to give them all away for free.

She was overseeing renovations.

She was just an extremely busy and important lady when she wasn't writing letters to Reformation leaders or helping out Luther with his studies and things like that.

They would go on to have six children.

It now seemed certain that Francis would in due course ascend the throne.

But Louis XII abruptly contracted a third alliance, marrying Mary of England, the sister of Henry VIII.

Louise of Savoy soon deemed it prudent to keep a watch on the conduct of this gay young queen, and took up her residence at the court in November 1514.

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End footnote.

Francis the First did not allow the magnificent reception accorded to him at Alencon to pass unrewarded.

He presented his sister with the Duchy of Berry where she henceforward exercised temporal control though she does not appear to have ever resided there for any length of time.

In fifteen twenty-one when her husband started to the relief of Chevalier Bayard attacked in Migere by the imperial troops she repaired to Meaux with her mother so as to be near to the Duke.

There are different versions of to the exact reason for the name of the market.

What is known is that a hospital for orphans was founded nearby in 1536 by Marguerite de Navarre, sister of Francis I, and that it took in orphans of the Hôtelier and was the capital's first institution devoted solely to foundlings.

These children were first nicknamed the Children of God and then referred to as Enfants Rouges.

Uh, some say that because of the red cloth, the color of Christian charity, but, uh, this has, uh, been, uh, countered in other reports.

And so you get, even today, there are, like, hundreds of tales written today that warning in different ways, not only for children, but for adults.

It's so interesting because it makes me wonder whether Perrault was picking up on things like Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron, which is full of warnings about the possibilities of sexual violence against women.

So there's a sort of tradition there, I suppose.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

I don't know." So his behavior at this point is similar to how he was with Catherine of Aragon towards the end of their marriage, where he's just kind of like, "I'm the king.

I'm the boss." And part of this also is what drew him to Anne in the first place, was just her, like, French ways, her beret, her baguette, her bicycle, and then also the fact that she was #NotLikeOtherGirls trademark, that she spoke her mind, like, that she had seen, and she'd grown up around Margaret of Austria and Margaret of Angoulême and Louise of Savoy, and, like, she saw women being powerful, even within her own house, like her grandmother, Margaret Butler, her mother, Elizabeth Howard.

Like, she stood up for herself in a way that other women didn't.

Like, we saw that back with her first, um, when she was engaged to Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

We've got, so around her household, not royal, but like her grandmother, Margaret Butler, who just like queen shit type vibes.

Then she saw Margaret of Austria, who was independent woman, don't need no man.

She saw Margaret of Angoulême.

She saw Louise of Savoy.

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The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume Three by Margaret of Navarre, translated by George Saintsbury.

Day Two, Tale Nineteen.

In the time of the Marquis of Mantua, who had married the sister of the Duke of Ferrara, there lived in the household of the Duchess a damsel named Pauline, who was greatly loved by a gentleman in the Marquis's service, and this to the astonishment of everyone.

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The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 3, by Margaret of Navarre, translated by George Saintsbury.

Second day, tale twenty.

Louis XII wished to marry Claude to Francis of Angouleme, but Anne, refusing her consent, it was only after her death in 1514 that the marriage was solemnized.

It now seemed certain that Francis would in due course ascend the throne, but Louis XII abruptly contracted a third alliance, marrying Mary of England, the sister of Henry VIII.

Louise of Savoy soon deemed it prudent to keep a watch on the conduct of this gay young queen, and took up her residence at the court in November 1514.

Shortly afterwards, Louis XII died of exhaustion, as many had foreseen, and the hopes of the Duchess of Angouleme were realized.

End footnote.

Francis I did not allow the magnificent reception accorded to him at Alencon to pass unrewarded.

He presented his sister with the Duchy of Berry, where she henceforward exercised temporal control, though she does not appear to have ever resided there for any length of time.

In 1521, when her husband started to the relief of Chevalier Bayard, attacked in Megere by the imperial troops, she repaired to Meaux with her mother, so as to be near to the Duke.