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Marot's Broadsheet against the TheologiansEn l’eau, en l’eau, ces folz seditieux...In 1533 Noel Bédier (Beda - syndic of the Faculty of Theology, the Sorbonne) launched an attack against Marguerite de Navarre, because she made Gérard Roussel (her court preacher, an erudite man, also very learned in Scripture) preach in the Louvre. This happened during Lent and attracted ever larger crowds. The king demands an investigation and in an ‘ordonnance’ of 18 May 1533 he bans Beda en three of his companions from Paris.[1] In pamflets (posters, broadsheets) some of Beda's followers defend Beda and scorn the King for being too slow in suppressing heresy. Marot seems to have written counter-pamflets. At least Fr. Juste (Lyon) prints Beda's broadsheet and Marot's response (a rondeau) in his clandestine and edition of L’Adolescence Clementine.[2] Instead of the Burning Stake (au feu) he suggests a Water Therapy (en l'eau)... Beda cum suis are compared with seditious fools who have replaced God's words by human inventions and who - using monopoles (= intrigues) - even attack the King. In the Juste edition another pamflet, a dizain, on the same subject is added. Only the rondeau is ascribed explicitly to Marot. Nevertheless...
Ce que aulcuns Theologiens plaquerent à Paris, quand Beda fut forbanny, voulans esmouvoir le peuple à sedition contre le Roy
[1] A.-L. Herminjard: Correspondance des Réformateurs dans les pays de langue française, vol. III, n. 418, p.54: Pierre Siderander to Jacques Bédrot refers to the same events (with a more correct version of the pamflet. he - a student in Paris - writes “quotidie affiguntur schedulae pro et contra…” ; vol. VI, n. 416bis, p. 445-448: text of the ‘ordonnance’ of François Ier of 18 May 1533. [2] Mayer, n° 14bis (12 juli 1533). [3] Defaux’s edition has an error. He writes: “au feu, en l’air, en la terre, ou en l’air.”
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