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Original Title:	L'Heptaméron
ISBN:	014044355X (ISBN13: 9780140443554)
Edition Language:	English

The Heptameron Paperback | Pages: 544 pages

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In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.

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Title	:	The Heptameron
Author	:	Marguerite de Navarre
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 544 pages
Published	:	February 23rd 1984 by Penguin Classics (first published 1542)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Historical. Medieval. Literature

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The Heptameron (Librovox Edition)Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre and set in mid-1500s Europe, this is an interesting collection of seventy-two stories.With a similar framework to the Canterbury Tales and the Decameron, the narrators - five men and five women of noble background - are thrown together in an abbey in the Pyrenees following a flood. As they wait for a bridge to be built, they entertain themselves by telling stories.--chaste and faithless husbands and wives, immoral monks, and

I read through day one of the seven days of stories. They are all a lot alike, dealing with sexual mores and shenanigans among (mostly) the nobility in 16th century France. More interesting is the author herself, Marguerite, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549) and loving sister of Francis I. Her religious sympathies lay with those trying to reform the church. She used her position to protect those favoring reform in France. She came very close to being charged a heretic, but in turn was sheltered by

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Marguerite de Navarre was the sister of Francis I of France and so was the grandmother of Henri de Navarre, and the great-aunt of Marguerite, better known as 'la reine Margot' from the Dumas novel.Although her authorship is disputed, the Heptameron is usually attributed to her, and first appeared in print in the mid-1500s. Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, this uses a similar framework of a group of noble French men and women trapped and taking refuge in a flood: in order to amuse themselves,

I want to first start by saying I cant believe I read and enjoyed a book written in the 1500s. I first heard of the book from another, which was Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman. After reading and watching the movie and seeing the scene where Elios mom reads the line from story 10, is it better to speak, or to die, I knew I HAD to know the rest of the story. Amador was a knight, and he was in love with a young girl named Florida, but he had to hide his feelings because of her high-born

Read it at uni - I remember I didn't entirely hate it. I enjoyed the idea of 10 people sat around a comforting fire sharing their stories, it was like having a little invitation to a private audience!

Hey, if you want a 16th century woman's perspective on the world, you've got slim pickings. Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron is one of the only major works by a woman in that century. I suggest reading it in French if you know it. The stories are a series of strange little Canturbury-tales-esque stories. Many of them are bawdy. Some of them have supernatural monsters in them. Alltogether, a pretty good time, and a book that has subtle jabs throughout at the thoroughly patriarchal society