Jeanne d'Albret

Jeanne d'Albret (Basque: Joana Albretekoa; Occitan: Joana de Labrit; 16 November 1528 – 9 June 1572) was Queen of Navarre, as Jeanne III, from 1555 to 1572. She was the mother of Henry IV of France.

Quotes

• A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible.
  • Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.
  • Motto, later adopted by her son Henry IV as his own devise. Reported in W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), p. 3, no. 19
  • Cf. Where there's a will, there's a way