Les passions secrètes d’une reine ou Marguerite de Navarre et le monde masculin

Marguerite of Angoulême, queen of Navarre, finds herself at the centre of the political, spiritual and literary life of the first half of the 16th century in France. Surrounded by a world of men, she left us a work marked by the three passions of her life : the love for her brother, François I, King of France, her spiritual quest and writing itself. This article does the analysis of the representations of the brother, of the husband, of the clergymen, and of that masculine world which surrounds her in that society intensely marked by Humanism, (Neo)Platonism, and Evangelism.