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Title: The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition

Author: Margaret, Queen of Navarre

Editor: David Widger

Translator: George Saintsbury

Release Date: May 17, 2009 [EBook #28858]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

THE HEPTAMERON

of Margaret Queen of Navarre

AN INDEX

Translated by George Saintsbury
Illustrated HTML Edition
Edited by David Widger
Project Gutenberg Editions

CONTENTS

## Volume 1.

## Volume 2.

## Volume 3.

## Volume 4.

## Volume 5.

VOLUMES, CHAPTERS AND STORIES

THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE, Volume 1.

PREFACE.

Explanation of the Initials appended to the Notes.

MARGARET OF ANGOULEME, QUEEN OF NAVARRE.

I.

II.

III.

IV.

ON THE HEPTAMERON

DEDICATIONS AND PREFACE,

Peter Boaistuau, surnamed Launay, To the Reader

THE HEPTAMERON

PROLOGUE.

FIRST DAY.

TALE I.

TALE II.

TALE III.

TALE IV.

TALE V.

TALE VI.

TALE VII.

APPENDIX.

A. (Prologue, Page 31.)

B. (Tale I., Page 50.)

C. (Tale IV., Page 85.)

List of Illustrations

Frontispiece

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057a.jpg the Muleteer's Servant Attacking his Mistress

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079a.jpg Hurrying to Her Mistress's Assistance

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103a.jpg the Wife's Ruse to Secure The Escape of Her Lover

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109.jpg the Merchant Transferring his Caresses from The Daughter to the Mother

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TALE CONTENTS
FIRST DAY.

Tale I. The pitiful history of a Proctor of Alencon, na