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
HistoryFrench Roman CatholicsWomen in the French RevolutionNobility from ViennaDaughters of kingsQueens consort of FranceRoyal reburialsNavarrese royal consortsBurials at the Basilica of Saint-DenisPeople of the War of the First CoalitionFrench people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution, Executed French womenDaughters of emperors, Austrian Roman Catholics, Austrian princessesDauphines of France, Dauphines of Viennois