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Article: Poesies de Francois Villon.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 1999
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Poesies de Francois Villon, commentees par Emmanuele Baumgartner, Foliotheque 72 (Paris: Gallimard, 1998). 200 pp. ISBN 2-07-040-126-X. F. Fr. 50.00.
This is a selective commentary on Villon's major poetry followed by a useful dossier of relevant primary and secondary texts. Its detailed treatment bears witness to the experience of the author and her command of the bibliography. It does however give rise to a number of difficulties and it might help to give a taste of this book by looking at its layout.
In the introduction, Mme Baumgartner refers to the historical problems presented by the text but concludes that `il faut maintenant s'interroger sur ... ...