Marguerite de Cambis

Marguerite de Cambis, Baroness d'Aigremont (fl. 1550s), was a sixteenth century French noblewoman and translator. She translated the works of Gian Giorgio Trissino and Giovanni Boccaccio from Italian into French.

Family Cambis was born 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. The Cambis family were Tuscan bankers who had emigrated to Avignon in 1448 for political reasons. Her father became a servant of King Louis XII and was rewarded with the title of Baron of Alès.

Cambis married firstly in 1545 to Pons d’Alairac, Baron d'Aigremont,

Epistre du Seigneur Jean Trissin de la vie que doit tenir une Dame veuve (Epistle by Lord Jean Trissi on the Conduct That a Widow Should Have), 1554. Cambis' translations were unconventionally into the vernacular French rather than into Latin.