By a base device two parcels were made of prohibited books printed by Dolet and of Protestant books issued at Geneva; and these, bearing his name in large, were forwarded to Paris.
A number of the leading bigots of the place were attacked; and Dolet was after an interval of some months thrown into prison, charged with exciting a riot and with contempt of the Parlement of Toulouse.
In that year, and in that town, the young Jean de Caturce, a lecturer in the school of law, was burned alive on a trivial charge of heresy; and Dolet witnessed the tragedy.
Dolet "not only became a convert to the opinions of Servetus, but a zealous propagator of them.
Christie, in his vacillating way, severely blames Dolet, and then admits that the book may have been printed while Dolet was in prison, and that in any case there was no malice in the matter.
Infamous as was the cruelty with which Dolet was persecuted to the death, his execution was but a drop in the sea of blood then being shed in France by the Church.
Dolet was substantially orthodox, and even anti-Protestant, though he denounced the cruel usage of Protestants.
He must have been born somewhere about the beginning of the sixteenth century, and his friend Dolet calls him Aeduum poetam, which would seem to fix his birth somewhere in the neighbourhood at least of Autun.
Dolet and the other persons just mentioned had translated for the most part prose into prose.
The translators, with Etienne Dolet and Amyot at their head, had begun to transfer to the vernacular, in versions or in original work, the principles of style which they had admired and imitated in the classics.
Dolet had written many Latin speeches and tractates in the Ciceronian style--that of a curious section of humanists who entertained an exclusive and exaggerated devotion to Cicero.
On his way thither he is said to have composed the punning pentameter--Non dolet ipse Dolet, sed pia turba dolet.
A statue of Dolet was erected on the Place Maubert in 1889.
The proces, or trial, ofDolet was published (1836) by A.
The additional words were supposed to convict Dolet of heresy.
Amongst the works published and written by Dolet may be mentioned:-- Summaire des faits et gestes de François I.
In spite of the protection of Castellan, a learned prelate, Dolet at length suffered in the flames, but whether the charge of Atheism was well grounded has never been clearly ascertained.
Si caput dolet omnia, membra languent=--If the head aches, all the members of the body become languid.
Illa dolet vere quæ sine teste dolet=--She grieves sincerely who grieves when unseen.
Etienne Doletthe Martyr of the Renaissance a biography by Richard Copley Christie, .
But, as Dolet quarrelled with almost every friend he ever had, and in two or three cases played them the shabbiest of tricks, the presumption is not against Marot in this matter.
Dolet was soon again in arrest for printing books forbidden by the Church; his trial resulted in an acquittal.
That glorious woman, Marguerite of Navarre--whose absurd devotion to her brother Francis is only a lovable flaw in her otherwise faultless nature--stood by Dolet as she stood by so many men who had the courage to study and think and speak.
It is related that seeing the sorrow of the crowd, he said: "Non dolet ipe Dolet, sed pia turba dolet.
Dolet grieves not, but the generous crowd grieves.
Philosophy has alone the right, says Henri Martin, to claimDolet on its side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
