Article: Villon lives.(French poet Francois Villon is remembered)(Brief Article)

1431-??

AMID too much courtly verse-turning of the 14th-16th centuries, the unattainable dames, later the sportive nymphs and shepherds, one voice speaks to the modern ear like clanging metal amid tinsel:

Surname? Villon, just my luck.

Born? In Paris, near Pontoise.

You wonder what my backside weighs?

Ask my neck when they string me up.

A graduate, widely read, client of the princely poet Charles d'Orleans, Francois Villon, born in 1431, could turn elegant trivia with the best: his over-famous Ou sont les neiges d'antan?--Where are the snows of yesteryear?--is really not much more than that. But his true life and ...

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