In the nineteenth century the most celebrated historian in France, Jules Michelet (1798-1874), in his 2-volume masterpiece, Histoire de France, offered Marguerite dÁngoulême his gratitude: "Let us always remember this tender Queen of Navarre, in whose arms our people, fleeing from prison or the pyre, found safety, honor, and friendship. Our gratitude to you, loveable Mother of our Renaissance! Your hearth was that of our saints, your heart was the nest of our freedom!"

(Those interested in writing the correct history of women's achievements may wish to know that -- after being called "the greatest historian in France" -- Jules Michelet was attacked and vilified for a later work, which praised many neglected women. These were the "Sagas" of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance who administered as nurses, doctors, midwives to the poor. They used many herbal medicines, which generations of them had discovered. One of these -- nightshade, containing the alkaloid atropine, for heart ailments -- is still called "belladonna", Italian for "beautiful woman", because that's what their male patients called them in gratitude for their ministration. A Renaissance quack, Paracelsus (1493-1541), discovered their herbal medicines and "suddenly" began to achieve amazing results of healing. Paracelsus is credited with founding "modern medicine and pharmacy". Michelet exposed his "theft" from The Sagas, and for this Michelet was vilified by his peers. You'll find an account of Michelet and The Sagas -- a subject also neglected by "The Feminists" -- in one chapter of a book, The Myth of Madness, by Thomas Szasz, an anti-psychiatrist psychiatrist, who argues that most "psychotics" and "neurotics"" should be taught how to live, instead of being drugged.)

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