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François Villon

1431 - 1463

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François Villon (; Modern French: [fʁɑ̃swa vijɔ̃]; Middle French: [frãːˈswɛ viˈlõː]; c. 1431 – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Villon is the 132nd most popular writer (down from 127th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from France and the 29th most popular French Writer.

François Villon is most famous for his poetry, which he wrote in the 14th century.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, François Villon ranks 132 out of 7,302. Before him are Jane Austen, Ammianus Marcellinus, Apuleius, Sully Prudhomme, Jean de La Fontaine, and Ezra Pound. After him are Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, August Strindberg, Charles Bukowski, and Jonathan Swift.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1431, François Villon ranks 3. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, and Pope Alexander VI. After him are Andrea Mantegna, Jasper Tudor, Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Ladislaus Hunyadi, John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch, Çiçek Hatun, Borommatrailokkanat, and John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. Among people deceased in 1463, François Villon ranks 1. After him are Marie of Anjou, Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, David of Trebizond, Albert VI, Archduke of Austria, Isidore of Kiev, Flavio Biondo, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Catherine of Bologna, Didacus of Alcalá, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, and Mary of Guelders.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Villon ranks 137 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Sully Prudhomme (1839), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and Albert Schweitzer (1875). After him are Charles VII of France (1403), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835), Hugh Capet (940), Charles IX of France (1550), Pope Clement IV (1190), and Jean Cocteau (1889).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, François Villon ranks 29. Before him are W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Marquis de Sade (1740), Anatole France (1844), André Gide (1869), Sully Prudhomme (1839), and Jean de La Fontaine (1621). After him are Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Jean Racine (1639), Nicolas Flamel (1330), and André Breton (1896).

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