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![Marie Dentière](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15410.jpeg?v=1709243523)
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Marie Dentière
Marie Dentière (l. c. 1495-1561) was a French theologian, writer, and street preacher who advanced the cause of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland. Her written works were controversial primarily because she was a woman and...
![Marie Dentière's A Very Useful Epistle](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15410.jpeg?v=1709243523)
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Marie Dentière's A Very Useful Epistle
A Very Useful Epistle (Epistre tres utile, 1539) is an open letter by the female reformer Marie Dentière (l. c. 1495-1561) to Marguerite of Navarre (l. 1492-1549) advocating for a greater role for women in the work of the Protestant Reformation...
![Marie de France](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10360.jpg?v=1711895526)
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Marie de France
Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe. She is credited with establishing the literary genre of chivalric...
![Marie Antoinette](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15403.jpg?v=1716559023)
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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793) was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799). With the ascension of her husband Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), she became...
![Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16629.jpg?v=1718404625)
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Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette
The trial and execution of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), formerly the queen of France, was among the opening events of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (1789-1799). Accused of a series of crimes that included conspiring with...
![Marie Durand](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16395.jpg?v=1665132125)
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Marie Durand
Marie Durand (c. 1715-1776) stands apart in French Protestant history for her courage in the struggle for freedom of conscience. She was imprisoned for 38 years in the Tower of Constance at Aigues-Mortes in the south of France, liberated...
![Ten Women of the Protestant Reformation](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15006.jpg?v=1683043447)
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Ten Women of the Protestant Reformation
Women played a vital role in the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) not only by supporting the major reformers as wives but also through their own literary and political influence. Their contributions were largely marginalized in the past...
![Louis XVII of France](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16976.jpg?v=1701020229)
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Louis XVII of France
Louis XVII of France was the regnal name of Louis-Charles de France (l. 1785-1795), the younger son of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) and Queen Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793). Although Louis-Charles never actually reigned as king...
![Marguerite de Navarre](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15412.jpeg?v=1702699026)
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Marguerite de Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre (l. 1492-1549) was a writer, philosopher, diplomat, and Queen of Navarre, sister of King Francois I (Francis I of France, r. 1515-1547), mother of Jeanne d’Albret (l. 1528-1572) and grandmother of Henry IV of France...
![Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16011.jpg?v=1654596667)
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Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle
Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle (1535) is an eyewitness account by the nun Jeanne de Jussie (l. 1503-1561) relating how the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland, impacted the lives of the sisters of her convent of Poor Clares...