Marguerite de Navarre de Angoulême: A Marvelous Contempt for all the Vanities of this World, French Woman Writer, (1492-1549)
Marguerite de Navarre was born in Angoulême on 11 April 1492, the eldest child of Louise of Savoy...
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Author: Karin Peschau
Esclarmonde of Foix the Great: Pope of the Heretics, French (1151– 1215) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Countess Zebella Trencavel of Carcassone and her husband Roger Bernard, the count of Foix, gave...
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Sojourner Truth: A Wandering Woman Orator, American (c. 1797-1883) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Her face speaks to us about the chains of slavery, about the iron chains of the slaves in America,...
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