Character Sketch on Jeanne d'Albret, Part 1
I haven't posted anything for so long, today I just realized it! Sorry! I don't really have anything to post on ( yet! ), so I'll just put a character sketch that I did a few weeks ago: Jeanne D' Albret 7 January 1528- 9 June 1572 Jeanne D' Albret was born on 7 January 1528, the only child of Marguerite of Angouleme and Henry of Navarre. Marguerite was the sister of Francis I, King of France. Prominent not only at the court, but throughout Europe, she "occupied an influential position in the intellectual movement of the day" by speaking out against the abuses of Roman Catholicism. "Marguerite was intensely interested in humanistic studies, was deeply religious, was strongly impressed by Luther and Calvin... [but] while dissenting from much in the Roman Catholic Church, never became a Protestant." I...