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The poems of François Villon (1431/32 - after 1463) are over five hundred years old. Not much is reliably known about the poet's personality and fate. Villon was orphaned early, studied at the University of Paris. Court documents confirm that he killed a man in a fight and took part in a robbery. But a unique poetic gift - the gift of a mocker, playing with the established literary forms of the Middle Ages, breaking them, thus coming to a kind of "new sincerity" - provided this sinful vagabond of enduring posthumous fame. Time and again, poets translate the famous lines into different languages, the work of François Villon is studied by scientists and philosophers....
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