Navarrese royal consorts
2 episodes
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Marguerite de Navarre
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Marguerite, Queen of Navarre (1492 – 1549), author of the Heptaméron, a major literary landmark in the French Renaissance.
23 November 2023
Featuring: Sara Barker, Emily Butterworth, Emma Herdman
Marie Antoinette
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Austrian princess who, while still a child, married the future Louis XVI of France only to face hostility and death under the French Revolution.
8 November 2018
Featuring: Catriona Seth, Katherine Astbury, David McCallam
HistoryNobility from ViennaAustrian Roman Catholics, Austrian princesses, Daughters of emperorsNavarrese royal consortsFrench Roman CatholicsExecuted French women, French people executed by guillotine during the French RevolutionRoyal reburialsPeople of the War of the First CoalitionQueens consort of FranceDaughters of kingsDauphines of France, Dauphines of ViennoisBurials at the Basilica of Saint-DenisWomen in the French RevolutionDaughters of queens regnant