Marguerite de Cambis

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Marguerite de Cambis
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Born
Alès, Languedoc, France
OccupationWriter and translator
Years activefl. 1550s
SpousePons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont (m. 1545, d. 1550)
Jacques de Rochemore (m. 1551)

Marguerite de Cambis, Baroness d'Aigremont (fl. 1550s), was a sixteenth century French noblewoman and translator. She translated the works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French.

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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] The Cambis family were Tuscan bankers who had emigrated to Avignon in 1448 for political reasons. [2] Her father became a servant of King Louis XII of France and was rewarded with the title of Baron of Alès. [3]

Cambis married firstly in 1545 to Pons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont, [2] [3] and was widowed in 1550. [1] A year later she married Jacques de Rochemore, a doctor of law and translator from Nîmes. [1] She lived with her second husband at the Château d'Aigremont and they shared a love of literature and music. [3]

A contemporary translator named Ménard wrote of Cambis that: "this noble soul, through her wit and intellect, brought honor and glory to her sex." [3]

Her dates of birth and death are unknown.

Translations

Cambis translated works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French: [4]

Cambis' translations were unconventionally into the vernacular French rather than into Latin. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 Winn, Colette H. (2017). "Marguerite DE CAMBIS, Traductrice française". Antoinette Fouque, éditions des femmes (in French). Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Marguerite de Cambis a contribué à la langue française". midilibre.fr (in French). 1 August 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  4. ↑ Betham, Mary Matilda (1804). A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country. London: Betham and Ward. p. 189.
  5. ↑ "Marguerite de Cambis, traductrice de Boccace: Epistre consolatoire de messire Jean Boccace envoyée au Seigneur Pino de Rossi (1556)". La Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR) (in French). Retrieved 5 February 2026.
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