Marguerite de Valois - daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henri de Navarre, future Henri IV - had her court in Nérac, capital of Albret, a Huguenot court where Margaux works to bring together a most brilliant court: " Our court was so beautiful and so pleasant that we did not envy that of France "A true literary academy is formed around it: Agrippa, comrade-in-arms of Navarre, Guy de Pibrac one of the greatest orators and poet of his time, as well as Montaigne, frequented the court.