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Francois Villon

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Noun1.Francois Villon - French poet (flourished around 1460)Francois Villon - French poet (flourished around 1460)


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She is La Heaulmiere, a former beauty and prostitute, actually a 15th-century figure celebrated by the poet Francois Villon and included in an opera about him, Le Testament, by another poet, Ezra Pound.
Rimbaud's request implies an allegiance to that part of French literary tradition that is transgressive and sexually adventurous, a tradition that, besides Sade, includes Francois Villon, Rabelais, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Restif de la Bretonne, Charles Baudelaire, Andre Gide, and Jean Genet.
The story of Francois Villon, poet, pickpocket and dreamer, who becomes King of France for a day, is an attractive one in itself.
 
 
 
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