![]() ![]() Love and extreme hardships of a woman in a foreign land. ![]() This is a full-cast production, narrated by Cate Barratt and featuring the voices of Linda Barrans, John Burlinson, Mark Crowle-Groves, Denis Daly, Susan Iannucci, Grace Keller Scotch, Jeff Moon, Sara Morsey, Kendra Murray, and Graham Scott. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre (1880), NOVEL LXVII. The stories include intimate details of adultery, flattery, betrayal, rape, and war, and their candor may startle even 21st-century listeners. Proposed as an edifying way of passing the time while a bridge is being repaired, the tale-telling - as well as the conversations that follow each story - quickly becomes a battle of wits between the sexes, with tales concerning illicit lovers, romantic conquests, lecherous monks, manly honor (and their opposite), and women's virtue (and their opposite). Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister of French king Franois I, and she played a tremendously important role in French culture and politics. Her masterpiece, The Heptameron, is a collection of some 72 stories told by five gentlemen and five ladies who find themselves stranded in an abbey. Marguerite de Navarre is a fascinating and successful author of the early 16th Century. She was the wife of both Charles IV, duke of Alençon, and Henry II of Navarre, and the grandmother of King Henry IV of France. The Heptameron, Marguerite de Navarre Introduction. Queen Marguerite de Navarre (April 11, 1491-December 21, 1549) was one of the most powerful women of her age, having helped to negotiate the Treaty of Cambrai, known as the Ladies' Peace. ![]()
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