Clement Marot

Facts

• Father was Jean Marot (also a poet)
• One of greatest poets of renaissance
• Attempted to compose/improve lyrical forms
• Added grace,elegance and personal warmth to French light verse
• Marot was arrested 3 times and exiled twice.

facts cont.

• Influence of Marot was evident in England  
• And revived in France in the 17th centuary
• Short imprisonment inspired his best-known works 
• Personal attendant to the King, Francis I
• Died in 1544 In what is now known as italy

french poem

• A Etienne du temple A madame de Ferrare A monsieur de Pothon 
• A son ami lion A un créancier A un poète français A un poète ignorant 
• A une Damoyselle malade A une Damoyselle malade Clément Marot
• Ma mignonne Je vous donne Le bon jour; Le séjuour 
• C’est prison. Guérison Recouvrez, Puis ouvrez 

french poem

• Puis ouvrez Votre porte Et qu’on sorte Vitement, 
• Car Clément Le vous mande. Va, friane 
• De ta bouche, Qui se couche En danger Pour mange 
• Confitures; Si tu dures Trop malade, Couleur fade 
• Tu Prendras, Et perdras L’embonpoint. 

french cont.

• Dieu te doint Santé bonne, Ma mignonne. 

English traslation

•  My sweet dish My sweet dish, You I wish 
• A good day. Where you stay, Is a jail. 
• Though so pale, Leave your bed,  
• Regain red. Open your door Stay not, 
• poor Child; gain strength And at length, 

english poem

• Steve does urge, Please emerge. 
• Then go eat Jam so sweet. Lying ill 
• Means you will become too thin - Merely skin 
• Covering bone; Regretted tone. Eat again, 

Engtlish Cont.

• This I wish, My sweet dish. 

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