e works
which proceeded from his press--ancient and modern, sacred and secular,
from the New Testament in Latin to Rabelais in French. But before the
term of his privilege expired his labours were interrupted by his
enemies, who succeeded in imprisoning him (1542) on the charge of
atheism. From a first imprisonment of fifteen months Dolet was released
by the advocacy of Pierre Duchatel, bishop of Tulle; from a second
(1544) he escaped by his own ingenuity; but, venturing back from
Piedmont, whither he had fled in order that he might print at Lyons the
letters by which he appealed for justice to the king of France, the
queen of Navarre and the parlement of Paris, he was again arrested,
branded as a relapsed atheist by the theological faculty of the
Sorbonne, and on the 3rd of August 1546 put to the torture, strangled
and burned in the Place Maubert. On his way thither he is said to have
composed the punning pentameter--_Non dolet ipse Dolet, sed pia turba
dolet_.

Whether Dolet is to be classed with the representatives of Protestantism
or with the advocates of anti-Christian rationalism has been frequently
disputed; by the principal Protestants of his own time he was not
recognized, and by Calvin he is formally condemned, along with Agrippa
and his master Villanova, as having uttered execrable blasphemies
against the Son of God; but, to judge by the religious character of a
large number of the books which he translated or published, such a
condemnation is altogether misplaced. His repeated advocacy of the
reading of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is especially noticeable.
A statue of Dolet was erected on the Place Maubert in 1889.

See J. F. Nee de la Rochelle, _Vie d'Etienne Dolet_ (1779); Joseph
Boulmier, _E. Dolet, sa vie, ses oeuvres, son martyre_ (1857); A. F.
Didot, _Essai sur la typographie_ (1852) and article in the _Nouvelle
Biographie generale_; L. Michel. _Dolet: sa statue, place Maubert: ses
amis, ses ennemis_ (1889); R. C. Christie, _Etienne Dolet, the Martyr
of the Renaissance_ (2nd ed., 1889), containing a full bibliography of
works published by him as author or printer; O. Galtier, _Etienne
Dolet_ (Paris, 1908). The _proces_, or trial, of Dolet was published
(1836) by A. H. Taillandier from the registers of the parlement of
Paris.

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