Editing Clément Marot (section)

===In Paris===
In 1524, Marot accompanied King Francis on his disastrous Italian campaign. The king was taken prisoner at the [[Battle of Pavia]], but there are no grounds for supposing that Marot was wounded or shared the king's fate, and he was back in Paris again by the beginning of 1525. However, Marguerite for intellectual reasons, and her brother for political, had until then favoured the double movement of "Aufklärung", partly humanist, partly reforming, which distinguished the beginning of the century. Formidable opposition to both forms of innovation now began to appear, and Marot, never particularly prudent, was arrested on a charge of [[heresy]] and lodged in the [[Grand Châtelet]] in February 1526. This was only a foretaste of his coming trouble, and a friendly [[prelate]], acting for Marguerite, arranged his release before [[Easter]]. The imprisonment caused him to write a vigorous poem entitled ''Enfer'' (hell), later imitated by his friend [[Étienne Dolet]]. His father died about this time, and Marot seems to have been appointed in Jean's place as ''[[valet de chambre]]'' to the king. He was certainly a member of the royal household in 1528 with a stipend of 250 ''livres''. In 1530, probably, he married. The following year he was once again in trouble, this time for attempting to rescue a prisoner, and was again released,{{sfn|Saintsbury|1911|p=748}} this time after Marot wrote the king one of his most famous poems, appealing for his release.

In 1532 he published (it had perhaps appeared three years earlier), under the title of ''Adolescence Clémentine'', the first printed collection of his works, which was very popular and was frequently reprinted with additions.  Unfortunately, the poet's enemies ensured that Marot was implicated in the 1534 [[Affair of the Placards]], and this time he fled.{{sfn|Saintsbury|1911|p=748}}