Jean Calvin greatly admires Clément Marot’s Psalms,…

Jean Calvin greatly admires Clément Marot’s Psalms, but because Marot, like most of his friends, has been at least as much of a freethinker as a Protestant, this is fatal to his reputation in Calvin’s austere city.

Forced to flee again, Marot makes his way into Piedmont, where he will die in Turin in September of this year at the age of about forty-eight.