Marguerite de Navarre
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing, Arts, Religion, Ethics, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Poetry, Poets, Patrons, Mentors
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Renaissance History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History
Article abstract: Both as a writer herself and as patroness of reformers and poets, Marguerite helped her brother, the king of France, introduce the new humanism into French culture. Her courts, first at Alençon and later in Navarre, were centers where educated women and men could discuss religion, literature, and politics. Marguerite single-handedly invented the salon, as it came to be known in the seventeenth century. She was the first society woman of learning—what the eighteenth century would call a “bluestocking.”
Early Life
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