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The Festival Context of Villon's Pet au Deable: Martinmas in Late-Medieval Paris
2009,2010
Overview
There are strong indications that the famous Paris student prank of 1451, known as the affair of the Pet au Deable (Devil’s Fart or Turd), coincided with and may have been more than partially inspired by the winter feast of St. Martin of Tours (11 November). The incident is well covered in the biographies of François Villon, who was about to receive his Master’s degree from the University of Paris at the time and who claimed, moreover, to have written a now lost Rommant du Pet au Deable. As he bequeaths to his “more than father” Guillaume de Villon in
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