Bibliography: the most recent titles which have not appeared in previous issues of this
bulletin, including some from the 1997 MLA International Bibliography and
Bibliographie der französischen Literatur-wissenschaft (O. Klapp).
Abbreviations: BJ.=Ballades en Jargon ; L.=Lais ;
PV.=Poèmes Variés ;
SFVB=Société François Villon, Bulletin ;
T.=Testament .
Books
Argüelles, Juan Domingo. La Ultima balada de François Villon.
Margen de poesía, 70. Mexico, D.F. Universidad Autonóma Metropolitana,
1998.
Baumgartner, Emmanuèle, éd. Poésies de François
Villon. Foliothèque: 72. Paris: Gallimard, 1998.
Burger, André. Lexique de la langue de Villon précédé
de notes critiques pour l'établissement du texte. Geneve, Paris: E.E. Droz,
Minard, 1987.
Jorda, Claude. François Villon ou Le poète au cachot. Cour
d'appel de Toulouse, audience solennelle du début de l'année judiciaire, 3 janvier 1989.
Discours prononcé par M. le président Jorda... Toulouse: Cour d'appel de Toulouse,
1989.
Jullian, Marcel. L'Amour de François Villon à
Frédérick Tristan: L'Information poétique. Poésie
1/Vagabondages ; no. 2. Paris: Cherche Midi Editeur, 1995.
Martin, Marc. Villon, ce Hongrois, ou, l'édification du culte de
François Villon en Hongrie. Officina Hungarica, 5 1217-4335. Budapest:
Nemzetközi Hungarológiai Központ, 1995.
Mészöly, Dezsîo. Az Igazi Villon : Mészöly Dezsîo
fordításai és tanulmányai. Budapest & Gondolat: Magyar
Mîuvészeti Akadémia, 1993.
Rudent, François-Victor. Georges Brassens : sur les pas de François
Villon : essai. [S.l.] : Arthemus, 1998.
Silvette, Herbert. You can't get there from here, the last testament of Barnaby: a
mock-heroic epic in fifteen cantos, eight ballades, and one rondel together with an
appendix. (All but the last in imitation of François Villon). Athens,
Georgia: Sacrum Press, 1994.
Sjövall, Björn. Existentiella skratt : 17 ballader i tecknet av
François Villon. Stockholm: Logos, 1995.
Taylor, Jane and Michael Freeman, eds. François Villon: The Drama and the Text.
Faux Titre. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 1999.
Verdun, Christian François Villon. Ni du tout fol, ni du tout sage.
Collection "Jeunesse". Martel, France: Editions du Laquet, 1998.
Villon, François. François Villon - ein Künstlerbuch : mit 108
Gouachen und Zeichnungen zu 28 ausgewählten Balladen. Tr. & Ill. by Roland
Dörfler. Braunschweig : Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 1997.
__________ . Izbrannoe. Moscow: "Prosvet", 1992.
__________ . Poésies Complètes. Ed. Claude Thiry. Le Livre de
Poche. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1998.
Articles and Book Chapters
Capps, Kathleen. "The François Villon-Ezra Pound connection. From The Testament
to The Cantos ." Paideuma 25, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1996): 205-
26.
Cirquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline. "Clément Marot et la critique littéraire et textuelle: Du bien
nommé au mal imprimé Villon." 157-64. In Gérard Défaux and Michel Simonin,
éds. Clément Marot 'Prince des Poètes françois' 1496-
1996. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1997.
Duforunet, Jean. "François Villon. Le Grand Carnaval." Magazine Littéraire
332 (May 1995): 21-24.
Faucon, Jean-Claude "Remarques sur quelques archaïsmes chez François Villon."
Champs du Signe 3 (1992): 33-47.
Freeman, Michael. "François Villon: Overview" In Reference Guide to World
Literature. Second Edition. Ed. Lesley Henderson. ?? London: St. James Press,
1995.
__________ . "On Laughter in the Waning of the Middle Ages." French Humor: Papers
based on a Colloquium held in the French Department of the University of Bristol,
November 30th 1996. Ed. John Parkin. [39]-59. Faux Titre, 164. Amsterdam and
Atlanta Georgia: Rodopi, 1999 [Villon is principle focus].
Lacy, Norris. "In Defence of Villon's Lais." The French Review 72,
No. 6 (May-1999): 1000-1009.
Mathews, Steven. "A Marvelous Drama out of Life: Yeats, Pound, Bunting and Villon at Rapallo." In
Keith Williams and Steven Mathews, eds. Rewriting the Thirties: After Modernism.
91-107. Essex, England: Longman, 1997.
Pintaric, Milna. "Odnos med minlijivim in vecnim v poeziji F. Villona." Razprave Razreda za Filoloske
in Literarne vede Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti 16 (1997): 157-66
[Testament].
Stevenson, Robert-Louis, "Un logis pour la nuit." In Les Nouvelles Mille et Une Nuits.
Tr. Isabelle Py Balibar. Tome 2. Points. Paris: Seuil, 1994
Simpson, Louis, tr. "The Old Woman Regretting the Time of Her Youth, or Lament of the Beautiful
Helmet Maker"; "Ballade: The Beautiful Helmet Maker to the Daughters of Joy" (Translations from
François Villon)." The Hudson Review 51, No. 2 (Summer 1998): 261-64
[T452-560].
Villon, François. [tr. of Villon's Poetry]. Tr. by Paul E. Dean, in his "While Your Children
Sleep". Diss. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993.
Youens, Susan. "Considerations of Musical Prosody in Debussy's Trois Ballades de François
Villon." The Journal of Musicology 2, No. 4 (Fall 1983): 418-33.
Music
Farkas, Ferenc. Le Débat du coeur et du corps [Villon, PV...] pour double
choeur d'hommes, 2 trompettes, 2 trombones, piano et timbales [1980].
Houten: Ascolta Music Publishers, 1994 [11 pp. musical score].
Stiller, Andrew. "Mort j'appelle [1996: male v., va., cb., pno.]." In his Three Songs.
Philadelphia: Kallisti Music Press, 1996 [song in sheet music uses T].
Recordings
Debussy, Charles. "Trois Chansons de Fran&ccdil;ois Villon". In Kevin Blume, baritone.
Program / Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; 1998-99
Eastman School of Music. Program; 1998-99. Rochester, New York: Eastman School of
Music, University of Rochester, 1999. [1 sound disc: digital, stereo ; 5 1/4 in].
__________ . "Trois Chansons de François Villon". In Nan Merriman sings
French & Spanish songs. England: Testament, 1998 [sound recording 1 sound disc :
digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.].
Honegger, Arthur. "La Rédemption de François Villon." In his Musiques de
films et de scčne. [France]: Solstice, 1996 [1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in].
Okudzhava, Bulat Shalvovich. "François Villon ." In Le Soldat en papier.
Nouvelle éd. [France]: Le Chant du monde : Distribution, Harmonia Mundi, 1993 [5th selection
in sound disc (55:02) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.]
Villon, François. "The great testament." In Hillier, Paul. Bitter ballads: ancient
and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies. Los Angeles:
Harmonia Mundi France, 1998 [sound disc recording, 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Villon to Rabelais: 16th Century Music of the Streets, Theatres, and Court.
Arles, France : Harmonia Mundi, 1999 [sound recording on compact disc HMU 907226
Harmonia Mundi].
Films
Alan Crosland, Dir. The Beloved rogue. Itasca, Illinois: Critics' Choice Video, 1998
[1 videocassette (99 min.) : silent., b&w ; 1/2 in. Original film in 1927].
Frank Lloyd's If I were king. Preston Sturges Collection. Universal City,
California: Universal Home Video, 1998 [1 videocassette (102 min.) b&w ; 1/2 in. Original film in
1938].
Presentations and Performances
Gooris, Marc [auteur-metteur en scène]. François de Montcorbier, dit
François Villon ou Le pendu vous salue bien [pièce de
théâtre]. représenté par la Compagnie de l'Ours, le 8-26
septembre 1998, dans la Salle Fred Barry du Théâtre Denise Pelletier, à
Montréal.
Peckham, Robert D. (University of Tennessee-Martin) "Un 'povre escholier' éternel se refait
dans la vie électronique de la Société François Villon." Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Teachers of French, in Montréal (July 14-19, 1998)
Varty, Kenneth (University of Glasgow), "François Villon and the 'Danse Macabre'" Seminar at
the University of Bristol (Thursday 29 October 1998).
Villon [1 videocassette (33 min.) : sd., col. NTSC ; 3/4 in. (U-matic) of ballet inspired by the life of
the French poet François Villon Danced by the Milwaukee Ballet. Videotaped in performance on
February 28, 1998 - cor. John Butler, Robert Starer].
Thesis and Dissertations
Burland, Daniel. "Invention, Imitation and Poetic Voice in the Works of François Villon,
Clément Marot and Joachim Du Bellay" Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of
Comparative Literature, December 1998.
Reviews
Brook, Leslie C. Rev. of Villon's Last Will : Language and Authority in the
'Testament' , by Tony Hunt. Modern Language Review 93, Part 2 (April
1998): 496-97.
Donaldson-Evans, Mary. Rev. of The poetry of Villon and Baudelaire: Two worlds, one
Human Condition , by Robert R. Daniel. Nineteenth-Century French Studies
27, Nos. 3-4 (Spring-Summer 1999): 425-426.
Freeman, M[ichael] J. Rev. of Le Recueil des Repues franches de maistre
François Villon et de ses compagnons , by Jelle Koopmans and Paul Verhuyck.
French Studies 52, No. 2 (April 1998): 189-90.
Holtus G. Rev. of Le Recueil des Repues franches de maistre François Villon
et de ses compagnons , by Jelle Koopmans and Paul Verhuyck. Zeitschrift
für romanische Philologie 112 No. 4 (1996): 791-92.
Reno, C. M. Rev. François Villon Revisited , by David Fein. Choice
35, No. 6 (February 1998): 996.
Roellenbleck, Georg. Rev. of François Villon Complete Poems , Edited
with English Translation and commentary , by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur. Zeitschrift
für romanische Philologie 114 No. 2 (1998): 318-20.
Roques, Gilles. Rev. of Roger de Collerye: un héritier de Villon ,
éd. Sylvie Lecuyer. Revue de Linguistique Romane 61, Nos. 243-44
(juillet-décembre 1997): 607-609.
Sargent-Baur Barbara N. François Villon Revisited , by David A. Fein.
Speculum 74, No. 1 (January, 1999): 160.
Thiry, Claude. Rev. of Le Recueil des Repues franches de maistre François
Villon et de ses compagnons , by Jelle Koopmans and Paul Verhuyck. Les Lettres
romanes Louvain-la-Neuve 50, No. 1-2 (1996): 133-34.
VanHemelryck T[ania]. Rev. of Le Recueil des Repues franches de maistre
François Villon et de ses compagnons , by Jelle Koopmans and Paul Verhuyck.
Moyen Age 103, Nos. 3-4 (1997): 649-50.
Walkley, M. Rev. of François Villon Complete Poems , Edited with English
Translation and commentary , by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur. AUMLA-Journal of the
Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 85 (May 1996):
120-21.
Whitton, Donald. "Villon's Last Will" Rev. of Villon's Last Will: Language and authority
in the Testament , by Tony Hunt. Times Literary Supplement 4895
(January 24, 1997): 24.
Studi Francesi (Rassegna Bibliografica: Quatrocento)
Mombello Gianni. Rev. of Complete Poems of François Villon , edited
with English Translation and commentary , by Barbara N. Sargent-Baur, in 121 (gennaio-aprile
1997): 146-47.
__________ . Rev. of Le Recueil des Repues franches de maistre François
Villon et de ses compagnons , by Jelle Koopmans and Paul Verhuyck, in 124 (gennaio-
aprile 1998): 112.
Sozzi L[ionello]. Roger de Collerye, an Heir of Villon , by Sylvie Lecuyer. In
126 (settembre-dicembre 1998): 555-56.
Significant Citations
Dupras, Elyse. "'Le Livre de la Déablerie' d'Eloy d'Amerval (1508)" M.A. thesis, McGill
University, 1991 [Villon's appearance in ch. lxvii ("Comment les juges sont aveugles et exemples du
testament Villon joyeux") discussed].
Lysyk, Stephanie P. "Making a Farce of Justice: The Divergence of Law and Literature in Early Modern
France." PhD. Diss., Stanford University, 1995 [Section 3: "Incriminating Literature", discusses
possible Basoche influence on BJ.].
Internet Ressources (with URLs verified 1 June 1998)