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Villon

[ vee-yawn ]
/ viˈyɔ̃ /

noun

Fran·çois [frahn-swa], /frɑ̃ˈswa/, 1431–63?, French poet.
Jacques [zhahk], /ʒɑk/, Gaston Duchamp, 1875–1963, French painter.

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Villon
/ (French vijɔ̃) /

noun

François (frɑ̃swa). born 1431, French poet. His poems, such as those in Le Petit testament (?1456) and Le Grand testament (1461), are mostly ballades and rondeaux, verse forms that he revitalized. He was banished in 1463, after which nothing more was heard of him
Jacques (ʒak), real name Gaston Duchamp. 1875–1963, French cubist painter and engraver
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