Claude de Bectoz (1490–1547) was a French writer and philosopher of the

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Life

Both her mother, Michelette de Salvaing, and father, Jacques de Bactoz, were from well-known families in the

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. Denys Fauchier taught her to write Latin and verse. Claude would later write prose and verse in both French and Italian. Claude became famous as a writer and intellectual and corresponded with many learned people, as well as with Queen Marguerite of Navarre and

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. After she became abbess of the

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Monastery Saint Honorat in

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in 1542, Marguerite and Francis visited her there. Francis carried her letters around with him and would show them to ladies of his court.

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16th-century French poets 16th-century French women writers French women poets 1490 births 1547 deaths {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub