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

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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	:	Anniversary 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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This is a series of short stories narrated by characters who are waiting for a bridge to be built so that they may cross a river. They debate the morality of each short story through the values of the time period. Lots of adultery.

Well, it turns out that one of my favorite literary forms is what the editor of the Penguin edition of Jan Potockis The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has dubbed The novel in frames. This form would be a collection of tales recounted (specifically, usually stories bearing traces of an oral tradition; they were called novellas in the Middle Ages when this form was prevalent) within some sort of frame-story pulling the disparate tales collected into a cohesive narrative whole of one type or

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

I had a whole lot of fun snarking in the margins. Its that kind of book.



"Is it better to speak or to die?" Marguerite de Navarre

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