margaret of angoulême

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Definition of margaret of angoulême in English Turkish dictionary

Angoulême of margaret

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Definition of margaret of angoulême in English English dictionary

or Margaret of Navarra French Marguerite d'Angoulême born April 11, 1492, Angoulême, 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'Angoulême. 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 François Rabelais. She was a writer and poet herself; her most important work was the Heptaméron, 72 tales modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron and published posthumously in 1558-59

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Mar·ga·ret of angoulême