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Villon, François

  1. A fifteenth-century French poet known as much for his life as an outlaw as for the quality of his poetry.


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Auvers is somewhat doubtfully stated as being the birthplace of François Villon—that prince of vagabonds.

Next to sermons my master liked the verses and songs of that rogue of rogues, François Villon.

Another poet whose name is associated with Blois is François Villon.

She is to the sources of jazz and the blues what François Villon was to the wild life of Paris.

Le jargon et jobelin de François Villon, suivi du jargon an théatre.

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