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Also Known As Margarita de Navarra ‱ Margaret of Navarre ‱ Marguerite de Navar ‱ Margarita de Angulema ‱ Marguerite d’AngoulĂȘme
Born April 11, 1492 ‱ AngoulĂȘme ‱ France
Died December 21, 1549 (aged 57) ‱ France
Notable Works “A Godly Meditation of the Soul” ‱ “Les DerniĂšres PoĂ©sies” ‱ “The Heptameron”
Notable Family Members spouse Henry II ‱ mother Louise of Savoy ‱ brother Francis I

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Margaret of AngoulĂȘme
Margaret of AngoulĂȘme
Margaret of Angouleme, detail of a drawing by F. Clouet; in the Musee Conde, Chantilly, Fr.
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Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
English translator
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud
French poet
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the BibliothÚque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva
Jean de La Fontaine
French poet
François Villon
François Villon
French poet
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
Paul Valéry.
Paul Valéry
French critic and poet
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Ronsard, portrait after an engraving by L. Gaultier, 1557
Pierre de Ronsard
French poet
Stéphane Mallarmé, 1891.
Stéphane Mallarmé
French poet
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Colette
Colette
French writer
French writer Michel Houellebecq in 2014, wearing a dark jacket over a blue shirt, standing in front of a blue backdrop with white text and logos.
Michel Houellebecq
French author

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