When Marguerite Bertalot was born about 1674, in Pramollo, Turin, Piedmont, Italy, her father, Jean Bertalot, was 31 and her mother, Jeanne Constantin, was 23. She married Jaques Bouchard about 1690, in Pramollo, Turin, Piedmont, Italy. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1716, in her hometown, at the age of 43.
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form of Margaret , also used in the English-speaking world, where its use has been reinforced by the fact that the name was adopted in the 19th century for a garden flower, a large cultivated variety of daisy. Margaret was earlier used in English as a dialect word denoting the ox-eye daisy, and the French equivalent was borrowed into English just in time to catch the vogue for deriving girls' names from vocabulary words denoting flowers. See also Daisy .
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