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Clément Marot, (born 1496?, Cahors, Fr.—died September 1544, Turin, Savoy [now in Italy]), one of the greatest poets of the French Renaissance, whose use of the forms and imagery of Latin poetry had marked influence on the style of his successors. His father, Jean, was a poet and held a post at the court of Anne de Bretagne and later served Francis I.
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