François Villon

Villon(c.1421-1463)

Villon (woodcut from Le Grand Testament, 1489 ed. courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Multimedia

See also "Listen..."  for recordings of selected poems by Villon from a December 2007 reading by Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

 


Le Lais [Petit Testament] (1456)
sound icon Je suis François...followed by La Ballade des pendus (ViveVoix)
sound icon Les contredits de Franc Gontier (this has been removed) (Harvard)

Le Grand Testament de Maistre François Villon (1461)
sound icon Le Testament (U of AR)
sound icon Ballade des Dames du temps jadis (ViveVoix)
sound icon Ballade de la grosse Margot (this has been removed) (Harvard)
sound icon Ballade pour prier Notre Dame (CLPAV)
sound icon Ballade de la belle Heaumière aux filles de joie (this has been removed) (Harvard)
sound icon Rondeau (Mort, j'appelle de ta rigueur...) (ViveVoix)

Poésies diverses
sound icon Le débat du coeur et du corps de Villon (Smithsonian)
sound icon Ballade (Je meurs de soif...) (Smithsonian)
sound icon Ballade des menus propos (Smithsonian)

 

Harvard Libraries

Hollis1533 Les oeures Maistre Francoys Villon (*FC V7195 489gn)

Other Resources