[335] Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549), sister of Francis I. and married, in 1526, to Henry II. d'Albret, King of Navarre, is the author of the _Heptaméron des nouvelles de très-illustre et très-excellente princesse Marguerite de Valois_ (1558-1559), the _Miroir de l'âme pêcheresse_ (1533), _Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, très-illustre royne de Navarre_ (1547), the _Miroir de Jésus-Christ crucifié_ (1556) and Letters, published in the last century. The other Margaret is Margaret of France, Queen of Navarre (1552-1615), sister of Henry III. and married, in 1572, to Henry III. King of Navarre, later Henry IV. King of France, and left her admirable Memoirs for the enjoyment of posterity, with some Poems.--T. [336] Mary Queen of Scots, France and (_de jure_) England (1542-1587). The only extant specimens of Mary's poetry, in addition to the reputed sonnets to Bothwell, are the verses on the death of her husband Francis II., printed by Brantôme in his Memoirs; a sonnet to Elizabeth in Latin and French; a _Méditation faite par la Reyne d'Escosse Douarière de France, recueillie d'un Livre des Consolations Divines_; and a sonnet written at Fotheringay, in the State Paper Office (_Cf._ the article in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, Vol. XXXVI., p. 389).--T. [337] _Cf._ Vol. I., p. 21. I omit Madame Claude de Chateaubriand's sixty-sixth sonnet, which is quoted by her nephew many times removed.--T. [338] Antoinette du Ligier de La Garde, Dame Deshoulières (1638-1694), married, in 1651, to Guillaume de Lafon de Boisguérin, Seigneur Deshoulières, enjoyed a great reputation under Louis XIV., when she was surnamed the Tenth Muse and the French Calliope. She is now remembered chiefly by her idyll of the _Moutons_, although her collected idylls, odes, elegiacs and songs, to say nothing of two highly unsuccessful tragedies, fill two, volumes 8vo.--T. [339] Marie Anne Henriette Payan de L'Étang, Marquise d'Antremont, later Baronne de Bourdic, later Madame Viot (1746-1802) was three times married. She was already known for several pieces of verse inserted in the _Almanach des Muses_ when, for a while, she acquired a real fame through her _Ode au Silence_, which was long considered one of the master-pieces of the eighteenth century.--B. [340] Hortense Allan de Méritens (1801-1879) published, as her first work, in 1821, a remarkable novel, the _Conjuration d'Amboise_, which was succeeded by _Sextus, ou le Romain des Maremmes_, the _Indienne, Settimia_ and others. In 1873 and 1874, she published, under the pseudonym of "Madame Prudence de Saman" and the title of the _Enchantements de Prudence_, a series of erotic confidences, or romantic autobiography, in which she mixes up Chateaubriand, Lamennais, Béranger and a score of others with her imaginary adventures.--B.