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An
engraving
of
Marguerite de Navarre
(1492–1549), the
queen consort
of King
Henry II of Navarre
, from an 1864 English edition of the
Heptaméron
, a collection of her own
short stories
. She was a
patron
of
humanists
and
reformers
, and as the older sister of King
Francis I of France
, Marguerite held tremendous influence in France, so much so that French historian
Jules Michelet
called her the "Mother" of the
French Renaissance
and American scholar
Samuel Putnam
called her the "First Modern Woman".
Engraver: John James Hinchliff; Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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