Marguerite Navarre
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About Marguerite Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre, a French princess, was a Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage. Her brother, Francis I, was the King of France. Together, they fostered the intellectual and cultural court and salons of the French Renaissance. She was a patron of humanists and reformers, earning her the title 'The First Modern Woman' from Samuel Putnam.
Marguerite Navarre's Area of Expertise
French Renaissance, Humanism, Reformation, Intellectual and Cultural Salons, Royal Lineage, Literature, and Patronage
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I am 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.