Marguerite de Cambis

Marguerite de Cambis
Born	Alès, Languedoc, France
Occupation	Writer and translator
Years active	fl. 1550s
Spouse	Pons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont (d. 1550) Jacques de Rochemore (m. 1551)

Marguerite de Cambis, Baroness d'Aigremont (fl. 1550s), was a sixteenth century French translator.

Family

Cambis was born in Alès, near Nîmes, in the province of Languedoc, France to Louis de Cambis, Governor of Alès, and Marguerite de Pluviers. She was the youngest of their six children. ^[1] Cambis' family were Tuscan bankers who had emigrated to Avignon in 1448 for political reasons. ^[2]

Cambis married firstly to Pons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont, ^[2] and was widowed in 1550. ^[1] A year later she married Jacques de Rochemore, a doctor of law and translator from Nîmes. ^[1]

Her dates of birth and death are unknown.

Translations

Cambis translated works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French: ^[3]

• Epistre du Seigneur Jean Trissin de la vie que doit tenir une Dame veuve (Epistle by Lord Jean Trissi on the Conduct That a Widow Should Have), 1554. ^[1]
• Epistre consolatoire de messire Jean Boccace, envoyee au Signeur Pino de Rossi (Consolatory Epistle by Boccaccio to Lord Pino Rossi), 1556. ^[1]

References

1. Postolache, Graziella (1 March 2007). Larsen, Anne R.; Robin, Diana; Levin, Carole (eds.). Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 61–62. ISBN   978-1-85109-777-7.
2. Winn, Colette H. (2017). "Marguerite DE CAMBIS, Traductrice française". Antoinette Fouque, éditions des femmes (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2025.
3. Betham, Mary Matilda (1804). A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: Betham and Ward. p. 189.