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.[1]Sorbonne theologians condemned the work as heresy. 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.[2]
Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse. Discord étant en l'homme par contriariété de l'esprit et de la chair. Oraisoǹ a Nostre Seigneur Jésus Christ. Édition critique avec une introd. et des notes par Joseph L. Allaire. München W. Fink. 1972.