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Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron Lauren J. Germain the surroundings and ambience ofMarguerite de Navarre writer, reformer, patron was a key figure of the French Renaissance. Her works, however, were critically reassessed by scholars only in the twentieth century. Today her Heptameron is widely anthologized and frequently taught in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. But teaching this collection of novellas presents challenges: the work is in Middle French, complex in its construction, and far reaching in its use of historical