Miroir de l'âme pécheresse

Miroir de l’âme pécheresse ("Mirror of the Sinful Soul") is a 1531 poem by Marguerite d'Angoulême.

It was translated by the future Queen Elizabeth I in 1548 as A Godly Meditation of the Soul.

A monk said Marguerite should be sewn into a sack and thrown into the Seine.

Students at the Collège de Navarre satirized her in a play as "a Fury from Hell".

Her brother forced the charges to be dropped, however, and obtained an apology from the Sorbonne.