Marguerite de Navarre was a queen with a pen sharper than any sword. 👑✒️ Sister to the King of France, she moved at the heart of power while quietly protecting reformers and thinkers. ⚔️ Her writing explored faith, love, and women’s voices in a dangerous age. 📖 A Renaissance mind who challenged the world around her. ✨ | History Roadshow

In August 1572, France was exhausted by a decade of religious war. Catholics and Protestants had learned to distrust every promise of peace. At the center of this fragile balance stood Catherine de’ Medici, queen mother and political survivor, ruling in practice through her young son, Charles IX. The wedding of Henry of Navarre, a Protestant, to Margaret of Valois was meant to reconcile France. Instead, it concentrated danger. Thousands of Huguenot nobles flooded Paris—a Catholic city already on