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;che, count of Maine, who died in 1110. 25. JEHANNE, Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake at Rouen in 1431.
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1. N'ENQUEREZ, do not seek to know_. SEPMAINE,_semaine. 3. QUE ... NE, lest_. REMAINE = _reste_. LAY ou PLUSTOST RONDEAU. 8. SE, _si. 12. DEVIE = meure_. 13. VOIRE = _vraiment. JE CONNAIS TOUT FORS QUE MOI-MEME. 15. LAICT. lait_. 21. BESONGNE = _travaille. CHOMME, _chôme_. 24. GONNE, gown, a monk's garment.
6. 3. PIPEUR, one who whistles in imitation of birds ; _je congnois pipeur qui jargonne, I know the tricks of the bird-catcher_. 4. FOLZ NOURRIZ DE CRESME, refers perhaps to the pampered court jesters. 7. MULLET, mulet. 10. GECT, a counter for counting and adding (_qui nombre et somme_). 12. BOESMES, Bohemians_; _la faults des Boesmes is the heresy of the followers of John Huss (1369- 1415) and Jerome of Prague (1375-1416). 16. COULEREZ ET BLESMES = _teints colorés et blêmes_»
CLEMENT MAROT.
1497-1544.
He abandoned the law to live at court and write verses. After his first successes, he became page in the household of Marguerite of Navarre, and continued to enjoy her protection and that of her brother, Francis I., though this could not save him, when accused of heresy because of the welcome that he gave to the ideas of the Reformation, from the necessity of twice fleeing to Italy for safety. In spite of some deeper notes and in spite of his translation of the first fifty Psalms, which is used in French Protestant churches, he was by no means a religious reformer. He was essentially a court poet, putting into graceful verse, ballades, rondeaux, epistles, epigrams, etc., the trifles, jests, sallies, and elegant badinage that delighted courtly society.
Works: _l'Adolescence Clémentine_, 1532; _Oeuvres de Clément Marot_, Lyon, 1538; Trente Psaumes de David_, 1541; Cinquante Psaumes de David_, 1543 ; _les Oeuvres de Clément