MAROT. CaMENT ( 1495.15441. A French poet, born at Cahors. In youth he studied law at Paris, but early abandoned this for litera ture. He soon won the passing favor of Francis I. and the enduring patronage of Margaret of Navarre. He accompanied Francis in the cam paign: of 1520 and 1525 and was wounded at Pavia. Taken prisoner. but soon released, he re turned to France. was suspected of Protestantism, and, in spite of a strong denial. imprisoned first in Paris. then less rigorously at Chartres. He was freed by the King in 1321, but soon reimpris oned on another charge. Again released, he suc ceeded his father as royal rolc•t de ehambre and in 1332 a volume of verses, the .tdoleseenec rlatientine, followed by a second volume in 1533. He now fell once more under suspicion of heresy, tied to .\ largarces Court in 1534. mid thence to Italy. Hence he returned to Lyons in 1536 and enjoyed seven years of court favor, terminated by his translation of Psalms 1.-1. (1541), which
etas condemned by the SOI1101111e. It was com pleted by Reza and is still used in French Protes tant churches. Alarot fied to Geneva (1543), quarreled with Calvin, and went to Turin, where he died. The best of Marot's poetry is his lighter work, fables. epistles. epigrams. songs. Ma rot's Works were frequently collected (1533, 1344, etc.). best by Jannet (4 vols., 1863-72). and by Pifteau (4 vols., 1884). An elaborate edition by Guiffres in six volumes is not yet com pleted (vol. iii. 1881). There is a Life by Dollen ]Paris. 1878-79). and a study with a good bib liography by Bourciez in Petit de Julleville, 1lis toir•c de in lanyue el de la litterature franeaise, vol. iii. (ib.. 1898).