The Heptameron
| Title | The Heptameron
or the seven days' entertainment |
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| Original title | Histoires des amans fortunez |
| Author | Marguerite Queen of Navarre |
| Publication | Susil Gupta |
| Size | XII, 471p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
French fiction--16th century French fiction--Love French fiction--Translated into English |
| Notes | 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 just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed 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. [wikipedia] |
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