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- Avantnaissance
Variantes Ms. 2370 (based on Guiffrey II + Mayer's critical apparatus)
- Chronologie - leven en werk van Marot
Cahors en Quercy, geboorte van Clément Marot, zoon van Jean des Mare(t)s (Jean Marot); wrsch. op 23/11 (St. Clemens) 1506 Jean Marot wordt h…
- Clément Marot - Jouyssance
Om een indruk te krijgen hoe een gedicht gereciteerd / een chanson gezongen / werd, kijk eens naar deze opname. U hoort eerst een chanson da…
- Clément Marot – About
Website initiated by the IMF ( International Marot Fanclub ), of which I —Dick Wursten— am the founder, chairman, and secretary ad hoc (and …
- Clément Marot – Appreciations
Some quotes from contemporaries of Marot about the poet. I tried to find the originals & offer an English translation
- Clément Marot – Articles
For the scholarly (and/or otherwise) interested: At this page I gathered digital versions of the some of my academic publications. I took th…
- Clément Marot – Auroydeferrare
compositions, summer 1535 – Ferrara first publication - clandestine: 1536 J. Steels – Antwerpen text: Edition Dolet 1543
- Clément Marot – Avantnaissance
This poem is a welcoming song for the third child of Renée de France, written before the child is born (Avant-naissance). We know two versio…
- Clément Marot – Avantnaissance intro
Composition probably summer 1535, three manuscript versions available, posthumously published in 1547.
- Clément Marot – Avantnaissance text
- Clément Marot – Beza
Beza's family originated from 'Bèze' (Burgundy). He himself lived in Vézelay for a while (you can still see his house there). The young Théo…
- Clément Marot – Biography
Clément Marot was born in Cahors (probably in 1496 and perhaps on 23rd of November (because the patron saint of that day is Clemens)); he di…
- Clément Marot – Biography 2
Oxford Companion to French Literature [1st edition 1959, revised/reprinted many times; in 1995 replaced by the New Oxford Companion to Frenc…
- Clément Marot – Broadsheets
1534 Marot had to flee France (after the " A ffaire des placards ", protestant extremists posting pamphlets denunciating the Mass in shockin…
- Clément Marot – Broadsheets
In 1533 Noel B édier ( Beda - syndic of the Faculty of Theology, the Sorbonne ) launched an attack against Marguerite de Navarre, because sh…
- Clément Marot – Chansons dutch
Geen vreugde heb ik meer, maar ik leef zonder troost,
- Clément Marot – Chronology marot
- Clément Marot – Commandements
This "prayer" is only present in the Geneva edition of the Cinquante Pseaumes , replacing the earlier version of the Decalogue, present in S…
- Clément Marot – Coqalane
Sauter du coq à l'âne is a French expression to characterise that one switches subjects and topics without making any connection. Marot used…
- Clément Marot – Crispel benedicite
Nostre bon pere tout puissant, qui gouvernes ta creature; Ouvre ta main nous benissant, Pour sobrement prendre pasture. Donne nous par ton e…
- Clément Marot – Crispel grace
Text not by Marot, but very popular because integrated in several 'Abecedariums'. There it is part of the 'instruction of the child' to lear…
- Clément Marot – Curious
For curious people, students and scholarly interested,
- Clément Marot – Devenize intro
Here you find a short introduction; the text of the two different versions - juxtaposed - are on a separate page (for layout reasons)
- Clément Marot – Double speech
Because of the religious troubles of the times, Marot himself got into trouble several times (see the short biography ). During his exile he…
- Clément Marot – Eclogeiv
Orchards and humble tamarisks don't give delight to all,
- Clément Marot – Empty
- Clément Marot – Epigrams
Marot first published his poems as epigrams in 1538, in two books (section of his Oeuvres , Gryphius, Lyon) . Some had appeared earlier (e.g…
- Clément Marot – Epistlebouchart
- original text from 1534 - for background information and analysis, follow this link
- Clément Marot – Epistledauphin
composition, summer 1535 [before 10 August - sudden death of the Dauphin] at Ferrara first publication - anonymous and undated [but by F. Ju…
- Clément Marot – Epistledevenize
This Epistle Marot sent to Renée, duchess of Ferrara, from Venice (hence the title: envoyée de Venize ) . Mid 1536 Marot had left Ferrara, i…
- Clément Marot – Epistles
- Clément Marot – Favorite
- Clément Marot – Feedback
Tell me what you think about my web site. I welcome all of your comments and suggestions... and if this feedback function does not work prop…
- Clément Marot – France and Italy
Summary from Gianni Mombello, "Lingua e cultura francese durante l'occupazione," in Storia di Torino , vol. III, Dalla dominazione francese …
- Clément Marot – Frerethibault
This is one of the most famous epigrams Marot ever wrote. Not only because of the bawdy text (we often label vulgar and rude, but in the 16t…
- Clément Marot – Grossecourtabesse
In DE GULDEN PASSER (publication of the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp), 43 (1965), p. 129- 134 Maurits de Meyer wrote a nice essay about…
- Clément Marot – Happynewyear
[imitating Martialis , of course -- translated by Richard Fanshaw & inspiring Christophe Plantin to a French sonnet, translated into Dutch b…
- Clément Marot – Histoiredefrance marot
In the memorable Larousse edition L'Histoire de France en bandes dessin�es, first published between 1976-1978 and republished in 2008, the l…
- Clément Marot – Introduction des enfans
Seigneur Dieu, qui as créé l'homme pour labourer, donne: nous au commencement la grace de ton sainct esperit: et nous ayde en poursuyvant no…
- Clément Marot – Januspoems
Two poems by Marot, both dating from the time of his exile and both addressed to Renée de France (Duchess of Ferrara, and famous/notorious f…
- Clément Marot – Key texts
To make a start: some poems from the mid 1530s deserve special attention, because they have survived in different versions, thus allowing th…
- Clément Marot – Lenfer
Marot's poem about his imprisonment in 1526, famous/notorious for the highly critical satyre of the corruption of magistrates, judges and la…
- Clément Marot – Links
A not exhaustive list of websites that might interest Marot readers.
- Clément Marot – Lucasdeheere
About Lucas de Heere (or d'Heere) and his anthology of 1565 ("Den hof en boomgaerd der poësien") I quote the specialists in this matter, W. …
- Clément Marot – Mamignonne
In his erudite, amusing and instructive book, Le Ton Beau de Marot , Douglas Hofstadter uses several poems by Marot to illustrate and discus…
- Clément Marot – Marot learnedpoet
First part of an essay by Dick Wursten, ' Clément Marot, the Learned Poet. If interested in the full text (focussing in particular on his Ps…
- Clément Marot – Marotmusic
In the 16th (and part of the 17th) century Marot was one of the most popular lyricists when music is concerned. In the 18th century I can't …
- Clément Marot – Marotmusic0
In the 16th (and part of the 17th) century Marot was one of the most popular lyricists when music is concerned. The most famous of course ar…
- Clément Marot – Melanchthon
two articles (from the website of the Melanchthon academy )
- Clément Marot – Music
In the 16th (and part of the 17th) century Marot was one of the most popular lyricists when music is concerned. The most famous of course ar…
- Clément Marot – Notes sur les psaumes
Les musiciens de France n'attendirent pas que des mélodies soient proposées pour les psaumes par les Psautiers (processus abordé partielleme…
- Clément Marot – Other poems
Fragment from l'Enfer , in which Marot describes his roots... Some Rondeaux (also popular with musicians, often with 'rearranged' texts. Tan…
- Clément Marot – Penthesilea
Not familiar with the legend of the Amazon empire, click here
- Clément Marot – Penthesilea amazon
Penthesilea was the daughter of Ares , the god of war and Otrera (or Orithyia), an Amazon queen.
- Clément Marot – Petitepistreauroy
The Young Marot (ca. 1519) shows his (h)ability as a 'rimailleur'. Probably not a gratuitous demonstration, but a sollicitation for a job at…
- Clément Marot – Poems
There is a special subdivision with poems by Marot translated into Dutch in the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic [ Nederlandse vertalingen ]…
- Clément Marot – Poems copy
Clément Marot died in 1544, leaving poems that had circulated in very different forms: some printed under his own supervision, some pirated,…
- Clément Marot – Polyphonic psalms
Background about the first polyphonic settings of Psalms [ et ici en français ].
- Clément Marot – Portrait Gallery
Surprise ! This quite unknown portrait - in the Hermitage St Petersburg- might very well picture Marot how he really looked like, ca. 1540. …
- Clément Marot – Prayers
summary. For a 'scholarly - with footnotes - and more complete version', click here
- Clément Marot – Prayers music
Marot's two 'prandial prayers' (click here for the texts ) belong to the favorites of composers, esp. among 'Flemish' composers (6 in the li…
- Clément Marot – Prayers scholarly
In 1533 (a kind of Evangelical Wonder Year in France with the King’s Sister Marguerite in charge in Paris and the Lenten sermons of Gérard R…
- Clément Marot – Psalm 137
Just to be able to appreciate how one can perform a simple Psalm - ès maisons , at home (not in the ecclesial liturgy according to Calvin, b…
- Clément Marot – Psalms
Marot's poetical transpositions of the biblical Psalms are a crucial but often neglected part of his poetic output. He was not the first to …
- Clément Marot – Psalms chronology
For more information, see chapter 2: "Tracing Marot's Psalm paraphrases", in D. Wursten, Clément Marot and religion (Brill: Leiden, 2010). T…
- Clément Marot – Psalms chronology
parts of chapter 2: "Tracing Marot's Psalm paraphrases", from D. Wursten, Clément Marot and religion (Brill: Leiden, 2010) - a shorter versi…
- Clément Marot – Psalms epitres epigram
Two dedicatory epistles (and an epigram) accompany Marot’s Psalm poems. The two large poems are of course meant as captationes benevolentiae…
- Clément Marot – Psalms lute
"In mid-16th-century France the pious middle classes and even on occasion the worldly courtiers were wont to sing psalms in elegant French t…
- Clément Marot – Psalms text
* For more background information read the introduction or consult the chronological summary .
- Clément Marot – Psalms text
* For more background information read the introduction or consult the chronological summary .
- Clément Marot – Psalms versions
Since of many of his poetic paraphrases there exist more than one version (Marot revised his firstlings on several occasions, sometimes only…
- Clément Marot – Psalmsmusic
For recordings, scores and images, click here || en français
- Clément Marot – Shakespeare blason
Sonnet 13 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are d…
- Clément Marot – Thesis
Clément Marot and Religion A reassessment in view of his Psalm paraphrases
- Clément Marot – Turintomb
Article published in Studi Francesi n. 161/2010 [anno LIV - fascicolo II - maggio-agosto 2010], 293-303
- Clément Marot – Villemadon
Article published in Renaissance Studies , Volume 22 Issue 2, Pages 240 - 250. [content the same, text slightly altered: minor corrections a…
- Clément Marot – Virgil eclogueiv
Virgil (Vergilius Maro) ecloga IV (and translation taken from http://rainybluedawn.com/translations/latin/ but slightly adapted to better fi…
- Clément Marot – Vrieselhof
23 October 2011 - Vrieselhof - Schilde (Belgium) Recording made by . Recording of two Psalms: Abel & Gentian
- Clément Marot – Whoami
When publishing articles in International Journals or in books, the result of one's research is 'published' but not necessarily made 'public…
- Editions of Clément Marot – A Guide to What Survives
Clément Marot died in 1544, leaving behind poems that had circulated in remarkably varied forms: in manuscript, in collections, in anthologi…
- Editions of Clément Marot – Prefaces 1549, 1550
Two very instructive paratexts: prefaces preceding the edition of Marot's Oeuvres by resp. Jean de Tournes (editor: Charles Du Moulin) and G…
- Epistle from Venice
This Epistle Marot sent to Renée, duchess of Ferrara, from Venice (hence the title: envoyée de Venize ) . Mid 1536 Marot had left Ferrara, i…
- From Pious Poems to Protestant Hymns – Marot's Psalms
Calvinist churches and congregational psalm-singing are so closely bound together that it is hard to imagine the one without the other, and …
- Introduction
The French poet Clément Marot (1496–1544) was a privileged witness to the events that shaped France in the first part of the sixteenth centu…
- Jean Visagier and Clément Marot - I.D. McFarlana
Visagier's volumes of verse are as follows: Epigrammatum libri duo (Lyons: S. Gryphius, 1536); Epigrammatum libri IV (Lyons: J. Barbou, 1537…
- Marot speaks Dutch – Clément Marot
In Holland, as everywhere else in Europe, Marot has remained a very popular author, way into the 17th century. His poems (the epigrams in pa…
- Page Title – Clément Marot
or: Why was Marot’s so popular with musicians ? [part of the C.A. Mayer Memorial lecture (11/11/11), London, see: the website ] [deadlink, o…
- Page Title – Clément Marot
The full text of all chansons in French below , some with English translations (long-term project...) and some with music (don't forget to "…
- This is the page
Recent research questions this attribution: clothing suggests second half 1540s.
- This is the page
Louvre Museum. Generally accepted that it is Marot. He was in Lyon at the right time (prob. 1536-1537) and frequented the same people as Cor…