A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Margaret of France
MARGARET OF FRANCE, Duchess of Berri and Savoy, Daughter of Francis I.; horn 1523;
Learned Greek and Latin, professed herself a patroness of the sciences and learned men, and, after her father's death, gained a great name by her beauty, piety, learning, and amiable qualities. She married Emanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy, 1559, and died of a pleurisy 1574, aged 51, occasioned, as it was thought, by her anxiety to perform properly the offices of hospitality to Henry III. and his suite, on his return from Poland. The most illustrious of the literati contended who should praise her best, and her subjects called her the Mother of her People.
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