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Artus Désiré
(c.1510–1579).Normandy priest, poet, and polemicist, whose numerous writings against the Reformers are marked by vituperative satire and parody, and illustrate the intensity and intolerance of ...
ballade
Strictly a poem consisting of one or more triplets of seven‐ or (afterwards) eight‐lined stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoy addressed to a prince or his ...
Bertrand de La Borderie
(c. 1507–after 1547).One of Marot's disciples, though also influenced by the Rhétoriqueurs, he is best known for his Amie de cour (1541), in which, reacting against Petrarchan and Neoplatonist ...
blason
A genre of descriptive poetry, closely connected with the emblem. It has its origins in 15th‐c. poetry and heraldry, was practised principally in the 16th c., but lasted well into ...
Bonaventure des Périers
(c.1510–1544),French humanist, born in Arny-le-Duc (Burgundy) and raised by the abbot of Saint-Martin in Autun. As a young man he lived in Lyon, assisting Olivétan with his translation of ...
chant royal
[shahn rwa-yal]A French verse form normally consisting of five stanzas of eleven 10-syllable lines rhyming ababccddede, followed by an envoi (or half-stanza) rhyming ddede. The last line of the first ...
Charles de Sainte-Marthe
(1512–55)taught theology at Poitiers, and was imprisoned in Grenoble for Lutheranism. Subsequently he taught French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He was protected by the duchesse d'Étampes and found ...
Classical influences
1. MedievalKnowledge, assimilation, and exploitation of classical literary texts, identified since the 9th c. as the characteristic property of the educated élite of western Europe and functioning as ...
Coq-à-l'âne
Writing or dialogue in which normal logical links are suspended, creating a nonsense effect. Practised by Clément Marot, verse of this kind was fashionable for a time in the 16th c.[...]
Étienne Dolet
(1509–46),French printer and humanist scholar. He was born in Orléans and briefly studied law in Toulouse; as a young man he worked in Venice as secretary to the French ...
Francis I
(1494–1547)King of France (1515–47). He was in many respects an archetypal Renaissance prince, able, quick-witted, and licentious, and a patron of art and learning, but he developed into a cruel ...
François Habert
(c. 1508–c. 1561),under the pseudonym ‘le Banny de Liesse’ (banished from joy), was a prolific but mediocre poet and translator. He enjoyed royal favour under François Ier, and Henri ...
Guillaume Amfrye Chaulieu, abbé de
(1639–1720).French poet. Although an ecclesiastic, he spent his time in worldly, free‐thinking circles, particularly at the Temple and Sceaux [see Maine, duchesse du]. His verse, like that of his ...
Guillaume Coquillart
(c. 1452–1510).Highly regarded by Clément Marot and his generation, this playwright came from a prosperous family in Reims and studied law. His early work, associated with the Basoche, was ...
Italian Influences
A balance‐sheet of literary exchange over some seven centuries would doubtless show that Italy's debt to France began earlier, and was the greater, but between the 14th and the end ...
Jean Passerat
(1534–1602).Teacher at the Collège du Cardinal‐Lemoine, then at the Collège de Boncourt, before replacing Ramus at the Collège Royal. His posts as tutor and librarian for the family of ...
Marguerite de Navarre
(1492–1549)Sister of François I and patron of humanism in France. She was close to Briçonnet’s proto-Protestant circle, and her Miroir de l’âme pécheresse (three editions were printed by Augereau) ...
Marot, Clément (1496–1544) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
(c.1496–1544), French poet and creator of metrical psalms.
Son of the French court poet Jean Marot, Clément
Marot, Clément (1496–1544) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(1496–1544).
Protestant poet, born in Cahors, son of Jean Marot. Clément moved to Paris when his
