Part one of term paper
The French Renaissance took place in the 16th century. This was modeled after the Italian Renaissance, which took place in the 14th century. The French Renaissance brought new ideals of humanism, which brought back the ideals of Greek and Roman arts and also stressed importance upon the individual. One humanist was Marguerite de Navarre. She ...

Part two of term paper
... 72 stories. The stories dealt with the social issues of religion, virtue vs. pleasure, and marriage. The stories are told by ten travelers who were at a health spa and were on the way home when they end up at a Pyrenean abbey due to massive flooding in the area. They devise a plan to pass time and to gain knowledge, and so the stories are told. In "The Heptameron," marriage seemed to be one of the most difficult things to obtain. It was a duty in which you had to find a suitable person of th ...