Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre presents itself as historic memoirs of the courts of France and Navarre, written by the subject herself. The contents describe a letter covering childhood anecdotes, attempts at religious conversion, confirmation in Catholicism, a court progress and an interrupted festivity. A poem gives voice to a queen without a throne who wanders alone among rocks and mountains and calls herself the last of her name.

The narrator reports her brother's message that peace had been concluded and the King had returned to Paris, while his own situation was rather worse than better. The brother's account describes daily affronts to himself and his people and continual quarrels between the King's favourites and Bussi and the narrator's brother's principal attendants. The narrator recalls seeing her brother again as a great satisfaction and counts the reunion among the greatest felicities she had ever enjoyed.