piece, _Le Navire_, expressing her despair at her brother's death. Of the other works, never yet completely edited, the best editions are, for the _Heptameron_, Leroux de Lincy (1855); for the _Lettres_, Genin (1841-1842); and for the _Marguerites_, &c., Frank (1873). English translations of the _Heptameron_ are rather numerous: one appeared in 1887 by A. Machen, with an introduction by Miss A. M. F. Robinson (Mme Darmesteter) and another (anonymous) in 1894, with an essay by G. Saintsbury. The religious poem, _Le Miroir de l'âme pécheresse_ was translated by Queen Elizabeth. Books on Marguerite and her court are also many. There may be noted Durand's _Marguerite de Valois et la cour de François I^er_ (1848); La Ferrière's _Marguerite d'Angoulême_ (1891); Lotheissen's _Königin Margareta von Navarra_ (1885); Miss Edith Sichel's _Women and Men of the French Renaissance_ (1901), and P. Courtault's _Marguerite de Navarre_ (1904). II. The second MARGUERITE (1523-1574), daughter of Francis I., was born on the 5th of June, 1523, at St Germain-en-Laye, and, at an age the lateness of which caused lampoons, married Emmanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, in 1559. Like her aunt and her niece she was a good scholar and strongly interested in men of letters. She is noteworthy as having given the chief impulse at the court of her brother Henry II. to the first efforts of the Pléiade (see RONSARD), and as having continued her patronage of literature at Turin. The poet Marc Antonio Flaminio, for instance, congratulates himself in pretty Latin verses on her singing his poems. Her _Letters_ have been published by A. G. Spinelli.