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Definition of Francois Villon
1. Noun. French poet (flourished around 1460).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Francois Villon
Literary usage of Francois Villon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Francois Villon Now, even London has its Villon Society, which in 1874 printed
the first edition of Mr. John Payne's English version of Villon's poems. ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) Francois Villon, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER
Perhaps one of the most curious revolutions in literary history is the ..."
3. The Early French Poets: A Series of Notices and Translations by Henry Francis Cary (1846)
"... Francois Villon. THE praise bestowed by Boileau on Villon, and still more the
pains taken by Clement Marot, at the instance of Francis the First, ..."
4. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Francois Villon (1431-146-?) HEN Wordsworth wrote in (The Leech-Gatherer' of "
mighty poets in their misery dead," he was thinking more of Marlowe and Burns ..."
5. English Verse by William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard (1883)
"Francois Villon. 1431— . A BALLAD OF OLD-TIME LADIES. Tell me, where, in what
land of shade, Hides fair Flora of Rome ? and where Are Thais and ..."
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