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Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549) was a French princess, sister of King Francis I, and one of the most educated and influential women of her time. A descendant of the Angoulême branch of the Valois dynasty, she patronized Renaissance poets, artists, and philosophers, and went down in history as one of France''s first female writers. Her court in Nérac and Poitiers became a center of cultural and s...