Clement Marot Fountain in Cahors France
by RicardMN Photography
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Clement Marot Fountain in Cahors France
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RicardMN Photography
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Monument due to the initiative of the Society of Lot Studies and inaugurated on July 5, 1892: neo-Renaissance edicule, bronze bust of Clément Marot by the sculptor Denys Puech, mosaic decoration on the drawing of the painter Luc-Olivier Merson, marble relief of the Seine and Lot by the sculptor Jean Turcan.
Inscription:
"... Au lieu que ie declaire,
Le fleuve Lot courre fon eaue peu claire,
Qui maints rochers trauerfe & environne,
Pour f 'aller ioindre au droicT: fil de Garonne.
A brief parler, c'eft Cahors en Quercy"
Cahors is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.
Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French Renaissance poet.
Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497.
He was a major French poet of the Renaissance period who is often viewed as the most important poet of his period because his work bridges the medieval poetry of his forbears, the Rhétoriqueurs, and the latter Renaissance poetry of the movement known as La Pléiade. Much of the medieval poetry of Marot's time was extraordinarily abstruse, written in archaic language in complex forms that left the meaning almost entirely obscure. Although Marot mastered this complex style and wrote a number of excellent poems in imitation of it, he would eventually completely reject the obscurity and complexity of his forebears and devise an entirely new style of French poetry focused on the vernacular language and simple yet elegant formal techniques. Marot was greatly influenced by his studies of the French poet Francois Villon (whose works Marot edited, collected and published) as well as by the Latin classics—particularly the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, and Horace, which he translated into French. Among Marot's most critically acclaimed works are his verse translations of the Psalms which, according to some, directly influenced the cause of Protestanism in sixteenth-century France. Marot is also particularly well-known for the blason, a poetic form he invented which involves the meticulous description of an ordinary, minute thing, which some have praised as a precursor to the Imagism of the twentieth-century moderns. Although Marot was overshadowed for many centuries by his immediate succesors, the poets of La Pléiade, he has within the last hundred years returned to the limelight, and many now agree that Marot is the first poet of the French Renaissance. (Description from Wikipedia and newworldencyclopedia.org)
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