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  • NAME: François Villon
  • OCCUPATION: Poet
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1431
  • DEATH DATE: c. 1463
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France
  • Originally: François de Montcorbier
  • Originally: François des Loges

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François Villon is known for his lyric poetry and his life of crime. He was banished from France in 1462 after committing robbery and killing a priest.


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French poet François Villon was born in 1431 in Paris, France. He was a trained scholar, but lived a life of criminal activity, involving theft and robbery. He once killed a priest during a brawl. In 1462, he was sentenced to death. The sentence was changed to banishment and he was never heard from again. His work, published posthumously, is noted for its poetic depth and rhyme.

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