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Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre

Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre

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Number of Chapters: 25

Length: 07 hours and 37 minutes

Language: English

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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Preface (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 1: Childhood and Marriage (1491-1515) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: The Young King and his Rivals (1515-1520) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: The Affair of Meaux (1520-1523), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: The Affair of Meaux (1520-1523), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: Constable Bourbon (1521-1524) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: Sequels (1524-1525) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: The Captivity (1525), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: The Captivity (1525), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 7: Queen of Navarre (1525-1530) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: Nérac in 1530 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: The Sorbonne (1529-1535), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: The Sorbonne (1529-1535), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: Changes (1536-1538) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: A False Step (1539-1540) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: A League with Soliman (1541-1543) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The 'Heptameron.'--I. (1544), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The 'Heptameron.'--I. (1544), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 14: The 'Heptameron.'--II. (1544), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 14: The 'Heptameron.'--II. (1544), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 15: Downfall (1544-1545) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 16: Nérac in 1545 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 17: Death of the King (1545-1547) (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 18: The End (1547-1549), Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 18: The End (1547-1549), Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
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