Villon in a sentence

Errol Flynn played Villon in a short TV episode (part of the Screen Directors' Playhouse ), entitled "The Sword of Villon," directed by George Waggner (1956).

This has generally been judged Villon's greatest work, and there is evidence in the work itself that Villon felt the same.

Villon's poem Tout aux tavernes et aux filles was translated into English by 19th-century poet William Ernest Henley as Villon’s Straight Tip To All Cross Coves.

There's La Bande, a cafe serving breakfast and lunch with market-style options; Villon, the all-day restaurant and bar located in the Proper lobby; and Charmaine’s, an indoor-outdoor rooftop bar, lounge, and deck.

A 1935 play by the Czech authors Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec called Balada z hadrů ("Ballade from rags") was inspired by Villon's work and adapted some of his poems as lyrics for a number of songs.

A ne'er-do-well who was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities, citation Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.

A year more passed, when Tabarie, after being arrested, turned king's evidence and accused the absent Villon of being the ringleader, and of having gone to Angers, partly at least, to arrange similar burglaries there.

Critical views Villon's poems enjoyed substantial popularity in the decades after they were written.

Film In 1914 the film The Oubliette features Murdock MacQuarrie as Villon, Lon Chaney as Bertrand de la Payne and Doc Crane as the king Louis XI.

For the complete works, another option is Barbara Sargent-Baur's very literal translation (1994, now out of print) which also includes 11 poems long attributed to Villon but possibly the work of a medieval imitator.

From what the poems tell us, it appears that Villon was born in poverty and raised by a foster father, but that his mother was still living when her son was thirty years old.

He based the main character Baal after François Villon.

He writes "He found in that poet's many works the 'beautiful male'" and states he feels like he is waiting to be hanged like Villon, unable to keep fighting in life.

However, Duchamp's true artistic mentor at the time was his brother Jacques Villon, whose fluid and incisive style he sought to imitate.

However, in the operetta, Villon is appointed king for twenty-four hours, and must solve all of Louis XI's political problems in that amount of time.

In Antonio Skármeta's novel, El cartero de Neruda, Villon is mentioned as having been hanged for crimes much less serious than seducing the daughter of the local bar owner.

In his own work, however, Villon is the only name the poet used, and he mentions it frequently in his work.

In the film, she pronounces François Villon as "Francis Villain", and the Leslie Howard character corrects her, saying the double el is silent, as it approximately is in Modern French.

Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912).

John Erskine wrote The Brief Hour of Francois Villon in 1937, a work of historical fiction.