The Children of Adam and Eve

Margaret of Navarre, also Marguerite d'Angoul? (1492-1549), queen of
Navarre, and sister of King Francis I of France, born in Angoul?,
France. In 1527, after the Death of her husband, Charles IV, duc d'Alen?
(1489-1525), Margaret married King Henry II (1503-55) of Navarre, to whom
she bore Jeanne d'Albret (1528-72), the mother of King Henry IV of France.
Margaret was a defender and a patron of such French humanists and men of
letters as the biblical scholar Jacques Lef?e d'?aples (circa
1461-1536), the satirist Fran?s Rabelais, and the poet Cl?nt Marot,
whom she welcomed to her court. The queen Strongly reflected the spirit of
the French Renaissance in her espousal of Church reform and religious
liberty and through her own writings; her major Work was The Heptameron
(1558; trans. 1905), a collection of about 70 stories that are similar in
structure to The Decameron by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.