It has a woman who was discarded and who refused, through sheer persistence and capability, to accept the role that the discarding assigned her.

She survived the island.

She survived the historical record.

She is still here.

The Measure Of What She Did

In the end, there is one way to measure what Marguerite de la Rocque accomplished that does not require literary analysis or historical contextualization.

It requires only arithmetic.

She was alive before June 1542.