Ballade des pendus
poem by Villon
Also known as: “L’Épitaphe Villon”
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discussed in biography
- In François Villon: Life
…he wrote his superb “Ballade des pendus,” or “L’Épitaphe Villon”, in which he imagines himself hanging on the scaffold, his body rotting, and he makes a plea to God against the “justice” of men. At this time, too, he wrote his famous wry quatrain “Je suis Françoys, dont il…
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