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    Villon's real name may have been François de Montcorbier or François des Loges: both of these names appear in official documents drawn up in Villon's...
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  • Villon may refer to: Villon (surname), a French surname Villon, Yonne, Burgundy, France 10140 Villon, a main belt asteroid, named after François Villon...
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  • If I Were King (category Films about François Villon)
    biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901...
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    Ballade des pendus (category Poetry by François Villon)
    Epitaphe Villon or Frères humains, is the best-known poem by François Villon. It is commonly acknowledged, although not clearly established, that Villon wrote...
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    18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much...
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  • The Vagabond King (1956 film) (category Films about François Villon)
    Louis' reign is disputed. The irreverent, persuasive beggar poet François Villon (tenor Oreste Kirkop) commands the loyalty of the commoners. Louis...
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    Ballade des dames du temps jadis (category Poetry by François Villon)
    jadis" ("Ballade of Ladies of Time Gone By") is a Middle French poem by François Villon that celebrates famous women in history and mythology, and a prominent...
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    Lais by François Villon; Katherine the Lacemaker was provably inspired by Katherine the Purse-seller. Villon, François. The Poems of François Villon. Hanover:...
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  • of François Villon was a series of four silent films released in 1914, directed by Charles Giblyn and featuring Murdock MacQuarrie as François Villon. The...
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    pseudonym of Jacques Villon as a tribute to the French medieval poet François Villon. In Montmartre, home to an expanding art community, Villon lost interest...
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  • West, using a textualis blackletter typeface. 5 June – French poet François Villon is implicated in a murder. 1457 14 August – The Mainz Psalter, the...
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  • François Villon is a 1945 French historical drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Serge Reggiani, Jean-Roger Caussimon and Henri Crémieux...
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  • Le Testament (category Poetry by François Villon)
    Le Testament is a collection of poetry composed in 1461 by François Villon. Le Testament, comprising over twenty essentially independent poems in octosyllabic...
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    He wrote two librettos for operas by Edmond Membrée (1820-1892), François Villon (1857) and L'Esclave (1874). In 1881, he was decorated with the cross...
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    discovered in Georgia in 1983. Alternate title: The Adventures of François Villon #1: The Oubliette 1914 A Miner's Romance John Burns Lost film 1914...
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  • language found in the writings of Charles, Duke of Orléans, François Villon, Clément Marot, François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre de Ronsard, and the...
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  • was called Pauvre Rutebeuf (Poor Rutebeuf). The medieval French poet François Villon (15th century) also famously echoes the sentiment in the Ballade des...
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    (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes)...
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    The Oubliette (category Films about François Villon)
    of a four-film series directed by Giblyn called The Adventures of François Villon. The Oubliette was written by Harry G. Stafford, based on a short story...
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    (sixteen pints or approximately 7.3 litres). The French poet and criminal François Villon was subjected to this torture in 1461. Jean Calas suffered this torture...
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    Lesure, François: Claude Debussy : biographie critique : suivie du catalogue de l'œuvre, Paris: Fayard (2003) ISBN 2213616191. Lesure, François: Catalogue...
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    thrown in a sack into the Seine? Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear! François Villon, Ballade des dames du temps jadis, 9–16 Apocryphal stories abound about...
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  • Grand Testament), a collection of poems by medieval French author François Villon 1461 Lenin's Testament, the name given to a document written by Vladimir...
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    To W. R.", lines 1-4 Henley's 1887 Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves (a free translation of François Villon's Tout aux tavernes et aux filles) was...
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    More Men and Mice (1945) François Villon: His Life and Times, 1431-1463 (literary biography) (1916) The Poems of François Villon (1914) Sappho: A New Rendering...
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    monologist and spoken word artist. He presented the prose and verse of François Villon, William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, amongst others, and toured Austria...
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  • Villon is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: François Villon (circa 1431–1463), French poet Jacques Villon (1875–1963), French...
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    The Beloved Rogue (category Films about François Villon)
    the 15th century French poet, François Villon. The film was directed by Alan Crosland for United Artists. François Villon is played by John Barrymore,...
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    Title Role Notes 1956 Screen Directors' Playhouse: The Sword of Villon François Villon First TV appearance 1956 The Errol Flynn Theatre Presenter 26 episodes...
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  • The Vagabond King (1930 film) (category Films about François Villon)
    Burgundians, appoints François Villon (Dennis King) king of France for one day. Despite being successful against the Burgundians, François Villon is sentenced...
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