Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême) (Ap– December 21, 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angouleme and Margaret of Navarre, was the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre. One was based on the life of Marguerite de La Rocque, a French noblewoman abandoned, as punishment, with her lover on an island off Quebec. Many of the stories deal with love, lust, infidelity and other romantic and sexual matters. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. According to Wikipedia: "The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), published posthumously in 1558.
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