I Know All Save Myself Alone: The Play

The play tells a life story of the greatest French poet of the 15th century - Francois Villon, also known as the “Voice of Paris”. The story leads us from Villon’s student years, when he used to be an assiduous scholar of Sorbonne and foster child of the senior Priest Guillaume de Villon, to the time when the poet gets involved with a bad company and is being lead into the mire of thefts, burglaries, and fi nally – unpremeditated murder. After the crime Villon is banished from Paris and he ...