Clément Marot élève de Jean : le modèle des récits de formation allégoriques

When Clément Marot tells how his father taught him to be a poet, in L’Enfer, the epistle « Au Roy » from La Suite and L’Eglogue au Roy, soubs les noms de Pan, & Robin, his account often gets fictional. Actually, this twisting of the autobiographic truth corresponds to the rewriting of topoi taken from allegorical initiation narratives. Marot draws on these topoi for a rhetorical purpose – when he defends himself or asks for goods – but also for an aesthetic one – for the poet uses them to redefine his art and the very exercise of the profession of court poet.