Marguerite de Cambis


Marguerite de Cambis, Baroness d'Aigremont, was a sixteenth century French translator.

Family

Cambis was born in 1531 in Alès, near Nîmes, in the province of Languedoc, France to Louis de Cambis, Governor of Alès, and Marguerite de Pluviers. She was the youngest of their six children. Cambis' family were Tuscan bankers who had emigrated to Avignon in 1448 for political reasons.
Cambis married firstly to Pons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont, and was widowed in 1550. A year later she married Jacques de Rochemore, a doctor of law and translator from Nîmes.
Her dates of birth and death are unknown.

Translations

Cambis translated works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French:Epistre du Seigneur Jean Trissin de la vie que doit tenir une Dame veuve, 1554.Epistre consolatoire de messire Jean Boccace, envoyee au Signeur Pino de Rossi, 1556.