Karnal wrote on Jan 4
th, 2022 at 5:09pm:
Billy Jack wrote on Jan 4
th, 2022 at 1:31am:
Manners ain't gonna help a man hanging off a the end of a rope, friend.
For brawling with a papal scribe in 1462, poet François (
FRANK) Villon was imprisoned and sentenced to be “strangled and hanged.” While awaiting his death, he wrote this quatrain:
“Francis I am, which weighs me down,
born in Paris near Pontoise town,
and with a stretch of rope my pate
will learn for once my arse’s weight.”
On January 5, 1463, the sentence was commuted to banishment from Paris. Nothing further is known of his life.