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Description: Online edition of the Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre, together with illustrations and summaries.
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The Heptameron is an important collection of short stories written in French by Queen Marguerite de Navarre . It is widely regarded as a major literary work, which has influenced the development of the short story genre. The Heptameron is also valued for its lively portrayal of 16th century Renaissance society, particularly social attitudes about marriage and the relationship between men and women.
The Heptameron consists of 72 short stories united by a several different framing devices. The overarching narrative framework is that of stories within stories, told by different narrators who are themselves characters in the story. The narrators, five men and five women, said to be modeled after the author and her court circle, are stranded at a mountain resort following a flash flood. While they wait for the roads to re-open, the narrators tell each other stories in order to pass the time. Within this fr
Each day the narrators pick a subject for the stories that they will tell, and so the stories are not random but rather expound various themes and often act as rebuttals and counterpoints to the stories told by the other narrators. One of the unique features of the Heptameron is that the narrators often disagree with each other and engage in lively debates and discussions on the significance of the stories; each interpreting the stories differently based on their personalities and experiences. This feature
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