François Villon
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François Villon 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 the
Stock woodcut image, used to represent François Villon in the 1489 printing of the Grand Testament de Maistre François Villon
Depiction of Villon by the Mexican artist Federico Cantú Garza
A page from Villon's Le grand testament. Kungliga biblioteket in Stockholm, Sweden.
Statue in Utrecht, Netherlands
If I Were King
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If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play a
François Villon
…Mayer with music by Michael Philip Ward. McCarthy's play served as the basis for If I Were King, a 1920 silent film starring William Farnum, and for the 1938 version, adapted by Preston Sturges, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Ronald Colman as François Villon, Basil Rathbone as Louis XI and Frances Dee as…
1938 US theatrical poster
Henry Wilcoxon, Colin Tapley, and C.V. France in If I Were King