Heptaméron
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The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre, published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of
Portrait of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to Jean Clouet, c. 1530.
The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron.
Marguerite de La Rocque
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Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France. She became well known after her subsequent rescue and re
Heptaméron
…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. In 1973, the French director Claude Pierson made an…
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