Poems
François Villon(born circa1430) is widely recognized as one of France’s greatest lyric poets. A graduate of the Sorbonne and a chronic lawbreaker, he was pardoned for knifing a priest, jailed for stealing from a college chapel, and eventually sentenced to hang. He successfully appealed the sentence and was instead banished from Paris in 1463. He was never heard from again.David Georgistudied medieval literature and modern poetry at Yale University and New York University. He works atVanity Fairmagazine and lives in New York City.