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Who was François Villon, the cursed poet of the Middle Ages?
He killed a priest, burgled a college, came within a rope’s length of the gallows, then vanished without trace at thirty-one. François Villon is also the greatest French poet of the Middle Ages, the one who brought into the language the ache of passing time and the voice of a man alone before his own death. We know this life
