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| 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.
Cambis was born in 1531 inAlès, nearNîmes, in the province ofLanguedoc, France to Louis de Cambis, Governor of Alès, and Marguerite de Pluviers. She was the youngest of their six children.[1] Cambis' family wereTuscan bankers who had emigrated toAvignon 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.
Cambis translated works ofGian Giorgio Trissino andGiovanni Boccaccio fromItalian intoFrench:[3]
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