16th-century short stories

thumb|250px|Portrait of Marguerite de Navarre|Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to [[Jean Clouet, .]] 250px|thumb|''The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was com