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HOASM: Clément Marot |
 | | Clément Marot, French poet, was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of the year 1496-1497. |
| | It is certain that Marot, like most of Marguerite's literary court, and perhaps more than most of them, was greatly attracted by her gracious ways, her unfailing kindness, and her admirable intellectual accomplishments, but there is not the slightest ground for thinking that his attachment was other than platonic. |
| | The victory, as far as wit was concerned, rested with Marot, but his biographers are probably not fanciful in supposing that a certain amount of odium was created against him by the squabble, and that, as in Dolet's case, his subsequent misfortunes were not altogether unconnected with a too little governed tongue and pen. |
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