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What was The Heptameron? What is its place in history?
The Heptameron, also known as Margaret of Angoulême's Tales, is a collection of 72 short stories written by Margaret of Angoulême, Duchess of Berry and Countess of Laval. The book was published in 1558.
Margaret of Angoulême, the mother-in-law of Catherine de' Medici, was a patron of writers and artists during the French Renaissance. She wrote The Heptameron as a response to the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, which tells 100 tales from the point of view of seven young women who take refuge in a country villa to escape the plague.