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erie_. 25. LUYANT, _luisant_, CLER, _clair.

  • 4. LIVRÉE could be used now in the body of the line only before a word beginning with a vowel. 6. ABILLE, habille_. RONDEL. "Les Fourriers d'Esté sont venus._" 13. VERT, feminine ; in adjectives of two endings of the Latin third declension, like _grandis, fortis, viridis_, the feminine ending _e_is due to the influence of adjectives of three endings, and does not appear in Old French. 16. PIEÇA = naguère._ 18. PRENEZ PAÏS, take to the country, i.e. depart. 19. YVER, hiver.
  • RONDEL. "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder." 2. SÇAY, sais_; _c was introduced into the forms of savoir under the mistaken notion that it was connected with scire_. 4. UNG, _un.

    • FRANÇOIS VILLON.

    1431-146-?.

    Poet and vagabond, he led a most irregular life, twice narrowly escaped hanging, and composed many of his poems in prison. He was a poet of great originality, for he broke away from the conventional subjects and the allegorizing habit of the Middle Ages and gave to the lyric a personal note and a depth and poignancy of feeling that made it almost a new creation, though he still adhered mainly to the traditional forms and showed a special preference for the ballade. Most of his ballades are introduced into his main works, the _Petit Testament_ and the Grand Testament, which are entirely personal in contents.

    His works were first published in 1489; Marot prepared an edition in the following century, Paris, 1533; they were not reprinted in the seventeenth century; convenient recent editions are those of P. L. Jacob (Paul Lacroix), 1854; P. Jannet (_Nouvelle collection Jannet-Picard_) and A. Longnon, 1892.

    For reference: A. Longnon, _Étude biographique sur François Villon_, 1877; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi_, vol. xiv; Th. Gautier, les Grotesques_; J. Lemaître, _Impression

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