Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre-Dame

Ballade que Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre-Dame (MF) Ballad Made by Villon at the Request of his Mother to Entreat Our Lady (the Virgin Mary). Debussy's setting (1910, Trois Ballades de François Villon #2) for voice and piano of a ballad from Le Testament (The Testament, 1461). The title is the invention of Clément Marot, dating to 1533, the time he prepared an edition of Villon's works. Debussy does not set the last stanza (envoi) of seven lines. The first letters of…