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François 1431–63?, French poet.
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Jacques Gaston Duchamp, 1875–1963, French painter.
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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
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Jacques (ʒak), real name Gaston Duchamp. 1875–1963, French cubist painter and engraver
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Paris — There’s a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
He grew up in a family of artists and chess players, including his brothers, the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the Cubist painter Jacques Villon, whom he joined in Paris in 1904.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Perhaps amid the benevolence of the day, some of us also felt what Villon and the French might have called a frisson, as we recalled the snows of 40 years ago.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023
"His comments do not reflect what we stand for, who we are," Villon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
There was a week of reading Francois Villon and not liking him at all.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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