The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
The historical record does not preserve her voice in any direct form.
What we have is the account that someone — the queen of Navarre, or Thevet, or the chain of transmission that connected the historical event to its literary preservation — chose to record.
The absence of her direct voice is itself historically significant.
It reflects the general pattern of the period: women’s experiences were recorded when men with access to literary production found them interesting enough to include.
The queen of Navarre found Marguerite’s story interesting enough to include in the Heptaméron.
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