His most famous poetic work takes the form of "bequests" made to people he knows before suffering banishment from his native city.
His most famous poetic work takes the form of "bequests" made to people he knows before suffering banishment from his native city. He leaves some hair to his barber and some small change to the usurers. His poem "Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times" contains the famous line, "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" While awaiting a sentence of death, he composed his "Ballade des pendus" [pahn-DOO] in which he imagines himself on the scaffold and asks about God's justice. A lifelong criminal, he is famous for having been banished from Paris for murdering a priest in a bar fight. For 10 points, identify this 15th century French poet, most famous for his "Petit" and "Grand" Testaments.
His most famous poetic work takes the form of "bequests" made to people he knows before suffering banishment from his native city.
Francois {Villon}