The poet François Villon was also a criminal

François Villon is a French poet born in 1431 who led a turbulent existence between university studies and legal troubles. He became a master of arts at the age of 21, before killing a priest in a fight two years later and participating in the burglary of the Collège de Navarre. Sentenced to hanging after a new brawl, he saw his sentence commuted to a ten-year exile by the Parlement in 1463.