I Know All Save Myself Alone Book

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 wanders in the precincts of the city fi ghting for
survival, retaining his fervent mind, sharp tongue, skill of scoffi ng his enemies
and ill-wishers in his poems. However, the prodigal son returns to Paris to fi nd
his place in this world . . . Being banished for the last time, he vanishes from Paris
and vanishes from History . . . ..