They soon reconciled themselves to the union, and when the newlywed couple traveled to Pau in January 1549 for a visit, Marguerite wrote the charming but far from polished 186-line poem “Le Parfait Amant” (On Perfect Love), praising selfless love and faithfulness.At the end of the first book (1-618), after a lyrical description of how deeply the narrator had desired the prison in which his love for her had kept him, how he cherished the pain that it caused him and had prolonged his suffering before conquering it, his second and last farewell to the lady is far from affectionate. In December of that year King François, accompanied by Prince Henri and Prince Charles, traveled to Nérac on his way to La Rochelle, where a rebellion was threatening to spread. She unwittingly imitated Briçonnet’s convoluted style when she answered his letters between 1521 and 1524, later quoting him from memory in some of her works.When he returned to Meaux, Briçonnet left Gérard Roussel with her for spiritual guidance, and although Roussel was repeatedly accused of heresy, he remained by her side until her death. He ordered his sister to leave, and she returned to France through the most direct northern passage.
Among those who found refuge or aid in the kingdom of Navarre were Jean Calvin, Marot, and Lefèvre d’Etaples.
Among various poems that she wrote between 1535 and 1540, “Le Triomphe de l’Agneau” (The Triumph of the Lamb) and “Complainte pour un detenu prisonnier” (Complaint of One Held Prisoner), probably alluding to Marot, who had suffered imprisonment for heresy, remained in manuscript form.Marguerite had long eschewed the cult of the saints, but eager to please her brother or at his command, she attended a feast in the honor of St. Martin in Lyon as a public display of orthodoxy in 1539. Under his influence the Circle of Meaux became the center of French evangelism. In 1505 Henry VII, king of England, asked for Marguerite’s hand for himself or for his second son Henry. Voir moins
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He divides his time between reading the books, conversing with scholars about them, listening to sermons, and attending mass. Silence, in Briçonnet’s and of Lefèvre’s apologia, is present in its most subtle and abstract forms: silence as praise, silence as an act of pure love, silence as meditation, silence in confession to God as an act of faith, silence as an act of humility as it reflects the failure of man’s own words and of his capacity to understand the immensity of God’s love and grace, and more particularly the silence of religious ecstasy.
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Her entourage crossed the snow-covered Pyrenees Mountains on horseback, reaching the French border on 25 December with a few days to spare.On 14 January 1526 François signed the Treaty of Madrid. In 1524 she was already playing a major role in the Circle of Meaux, providing spiritual as well as financial support for the printing and distribution of evangelical and Reformist texts, all written in or translated into French. In Amboise she chose for her children highly respected scholars open to new ideas who provided a solid education of remarkable breadth to both François and his sister. In defiance of the Faculty of Theology, Marguerite included in the new editions of the popular Marguerite and King Henri were returning to their kingdom when the Affaire des Placards compromised Marguerite’s relationship with her brother. Marguerite was then fifty years old and pregnant but this last chance at giving Navarre a king ended when she miscarried in April 1543.When she returned to the court at her brother’s invitation in 1544, Marguerite brought Marguerite suffered a painful loss in September 1544, when Marot whom she had long protected when she was able, died in exile in Turin. She was accompanied by her secretary Des Périers, suspected of heresy, to indicate that he remained in her protection. Les anges chantent ensuite, et « Dieu commande à ses cohortes célestes d'avertir la sainte famille : « Joseph, dans un pays aride, prie Dieu de lui assurer la subsistance des siens. Lefèvre was arrested and refused to recant, but with Marguerite’s help he went into exile in Strasbourg. Marguerite is inspired to devote nearly 2,600 lines to the jubilation and the euphoria of this vertiginous “tomber en Dieu” (fall into God). Marguerite’s life at court resumed, and so did her interest in the Reformist cause.On 26 December 1526, Marguerite, Duchess of Alençon, was formally engaged to Henri II d’Albret, King of Navarre, eleven years her junior, who had escaped from the emperor’s jail after being made prisoner at Pavia. Marguerite de Navarre was not the only educated woman to write and publish verse during the first half of the sixteenth century, but she was the first woman of the French nobility who carefully compiled from her complete works a selection of poems, prayers, religious meditations, songs, biblical and secular (without biblical characters) plays, and other works that she felt worthy to appear in print. She remains alone on stage to deliver an inspired paean to God. Marguerite and her husband postponed their departure from Béarn as long as they could but were told that the marriage would take place in Moulins on 20 October 1548 whether or not they were present. When the emperor’s terms proved unacceptable and additional mediations took longer than expected, François suspected that Charles was trying to keep Marguerite in Spain long enough for her safe-conduct to expire and thus hold two royal hostages instead of one. Marguerite, however, chose to become involved in the lives of her subjects, particularly the poor.
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Les Adieux. The same year her Marguerite had honed her skills in the more than ten years she had been writing when she published The major part of the poem is a long monologue to Christ, her constant and forgiving intercessor, and is divided among the four roles of mother, daughter, sister, and wife in which she sees herself in her relationship with Christ.