(1431-c. 1465) French poet. He used satiric humor, pathos, and lyric power in works written in the slang of the time. Among the little of his work that survives, Petit Testament 1456 and Grand Testament 1461 are prominent (the latter includes the ‘Ballade des dames du temps jadis/Ballad of the Ladies of Former Times’).
He was born in Paris and dropped his surname (Montcorbier or de Logos) to assume that of one of his relatives, a canon, who sent him to study at the Sorbonne, where he graduated 1449 and took his MA 1452. In 1455 he stabbed a priest in a street fight and had to flee the city. Pardoned the next year, he returned to Paris but was soon in flight again after robbing the College of Navarre. He stayed briefly at the court of the duke of Orléans until sentenced to death for an unknown offense, from which he was saved by the amnesty of a public holiday. Theft and public brawling continued to occupy his time, in addition to the production of the Grand Testament 1461. A sentence of death in Paris, commuted to ten-year banishment 1463, is the last that is known of his life. + prikaži više

Jacques 1875-1963 originally Gaston Duchamp; brother of Marcel Duchamp French painter