Part 1 of Essay
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 Marguer ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... 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 the same class. As story 42 points out, someone of the higher class could obtain someone as a mistress but not as a wife. Marriage always had to be approved by your mistress. No matter how much one loved another, it also had to be consented between both sides of the family. You could not remarry until mourning was done. And a couple could n ....