biography
pronunciation:
[maroh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1495/7–1544)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Cahors, SC France, the son of the court poet Jean Desmarest (d.1524), whose diminutive name was Marot. He entered the service of Margaret of Angoulême, was wounded at the Battle of Pavia (1525), and imprisoned briefly on a charge of heresy. Implicated in the ‘affaire des Placards’ (1534), he took refuge in the court of the Duchess of Ferrara before returning to Paris in 1536. He began to translate the Psalms into French, but was accused of heresy by the Sorbonne, and again had to flee (1543), finally to Italy where he died in obscurity. One of the celebrated poets of the French Renaissance, his work included elegies, epistles, rondeaux, ballads, sonnets, madrigals, epigrams, and nonsense verses. |
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