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Heptaméron
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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
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- Author
- Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
- First published
- 1740
- Editions
- 129
- Subjects
- Classic Literature, Fiction, French Love stories, Tales, French Romance fiction, Translations into English, French fiction, Medieval Literature
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- MargaretNavarreHeptameron.jpg
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- Commons category
- Heptaméron
- publication date
- 1558-00-00
- title
- L'Heptaméron
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/navarra/heptamer/heptamer.html
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6 sectionsContents
- History of the text
- Summary of the "Prologue"
- Sample story summarized
- See also
- References
- External links
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 completed only as far as the second story of the eighth day.
Many of the stories deal with love, lust, infidelity, and other romantic and sexual matters. One was based on the life of Marguerite de La Rocque, a French noblewoman who was punished by being abandoned with her lover on an island off Quebec.