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François Villon
François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.
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culture · 15th-century French poet and criminal · poet · lyricist · writer · also François Villon, Villon
Born 1431 · Died 1463 · Q849
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2026· 2 entries
MutualArt.com: Francois Villon
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2025· 2 entries
Le télégramme: « Je sais bien que je vais faire bondir » : pour l’auteur Roger Faligot, pas de doute, le poète François Villon était Breton !
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Le télégramme: « Le mystère François Villon » : quels sont les liens avec Tréguier de « ce poète moyenâgeux et pourtant moderne » ?
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2022· 1 entry
San Diego Reader: François Villon: peasant over princess
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2021· 1 entry
Willamette Week: It’s All About Escape and Space for the Star of “The Testament of François Villon”
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2018· 2 entries
Letudiant.fr: Lycée François-Villon (Paris)
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Letudiant.fr: Lycée François-Villon (Les Mureaux) : avis
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2016· 2 entries
AlloCiné: Derniers Avis sur Je, François Villon, Voleur, Assassin, Poète
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AlloCiné: Avis sur Je, François Villon, Voleur, Assassin, Poète
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2009· 1 entry
Premiere.fr: Je, François Villon, assassin, voleur, poète... : En tournage pour France 2
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1993· 1 entry
By Eric Walter Elst at the CERGA Observatory, was named in his honor
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1987· 1 entry
A 195 minutes movie François Villon – the vagabond poet, directed by the renowned Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu, with Florent Pagny playing François Villon
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1981· 1 entry
In West Germany, with Jörg Pleva in the title role
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1945· 1 entry
For François Villon, a French historical drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Serge Reggiani, Jean-Roger Caussimon, and Henri Crémieux
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1930· 1 entry
In a two-strip Technicolor film starring Dennis King and Jeanette MacDonald, and in 1956, to a film starring Oreste Kirkop and Kathryn Grayson
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1909· 1 entry
Composed the symphonic poem Villon, depicting episodes in the life of the poet
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1878· 1 entry
“A Ballad of Francois Villon, Prince of all Ballad-Makers”
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1877· 1 entry
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote two pieces on Villon: a short story titled "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon", which was later collected in New Arabian Nights, and an essay titled "François Villon: Student
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1463· 1 entry
Died 1463.
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1431· 1 entry
Born 1431.
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