And those things are what got recorded.

The Punishment And Its Proportionality

The question of whether Roberval’s punishment of Marguerite was proportionate to her transgression was noted as excessive by at least some of her contemporaries, and it has been analyzed by historians as an example of the extreme disproportion between the authority wielded by men over women in the sixteenth century and the formal accountability they faced for exercising that authority.

What Marguerite did — according to the accounts — was engage in a romantic relationship without her guardian’s approval, aboard a ship on a colonial expedition.