. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). ly ofEstienne ; and of that family, take him all in all, themost distinguised member was he who figures inBezas gallery of portraits as Robertus StephanusParisiensis, Regius Typographus. 203 Clement Marot (Clemens Marotus) THE father of Clement Marot was a Normanfrom the neighbourhood of Caen. For somereason not now discoverable he removed toCahors, capital of the Province of Marot (more correctly Marai
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). ly ofEstienne ; and of that family, take him all in all, themost distinguised member was he who figures inBezas gallery of portraits as Robertus StephanusParisiensis, Regius Typographus. 203 Clement Marot (Clemens Marotus) THE father of Clement Marot was a Normanfrom the neighbourhood of Caen. For somereason not now discoverable he removed toCahors, capital of the Province of Marot (more correctly Marais, Marets,or Mares) was twice married. His second wife wasthe mother of the poet. Clement Marot was bornat Cahors during the winter of 1496-97. Hematriculated at the University of Paris, and thereentered upon the study of law. From early dayshe cultivated, if not poetry, at least verse-making,reckoned a fashionable accomplishment in thefifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when versifiersmanufactured complicated structures of the Balladeand the Rondeau type. A genuine Frenchman ofthe old stamp, sociable, amiable, good-humoured,Clement Marot soon abandoned his legal studies, 204. CLEMENT MAROT. element Marot and found congenial employment as page to acertain Messire de Neuville. This was the begin-ning of the Court life of the poet, which was toprove both his joy and his snare. In 1519 he became a member of the suite ofMarguerite, sister of Francis L, and when thatfriend of Frenchmen of letters became the wife ofthe Due dAIen^on, Marot had a post in the house-hold assigned him, with ninety-five livres annuallyas pension. In 1524 the courtier accompanied hissovereign on his ill-considered and ill-fated campaignin Italy. At the battle of Pavia he was woundedand taken prisoner. When release came, quicker tohim than to the captured Francis, he made his wayback to Paris, where he came under the influence ofthe double movement of the century, the Humanist,or Renaissance, and the Evangeli
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