The Ballade des pendus, also known as Epitaphe Villon or Frères humains, is the best-known poem by François Villon. It is commonly acknowledged, although not clearly established, that Villon wrote it in prison while he awaited his execution. It was published posthumously in 1489 by Antoine Vérard. == Form == The poem is in the form of a large b...
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(from the article `Villon, François`) ...he was condemned to be pendu et etranglé (`hanged and strangled`). While under the sentence of death he wrote his superb Ballade des pendus, or ...
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