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On page xii, reproduced with kind permission of the Louvre Museum, Paris:

Portrait présumé de Clément Marot, poète (avec cadre)
de Corneille de Lyon (ca. 1500-ca. 1575)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
© Photo RMN -- Gérard Blot
Made available by the Agence photographique
de la réunion des musées nationaux, Paris. Philippe Couton, archivist.

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1945- )
Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language / by
Douglas R. Hofstadter.
p. cm.

Includes the text of Clément Marot's "A une Damoyselle malade"
with numerous English translations.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599) and index.
ISBN 0-465-08643-8 (cloth) ISBN 0-465-08645-4 (paper)
1. Translating and interpreting. I. Marot, Clément, 1496-1544.
A une Damoyselle malade. English & French. II. Title.
P306.H63 1997
418'.02 -- dc21

97-3999
CIP

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