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FRANÇOIS, true name probably FRANÇOIS MANTCORBIER, French poet; born in Paris in 1431. He led a wild roving life, being imprisoned, pardoned, and finally banished from France. His poetry marks a new epoch in the introduction of a personal element. He wrote: "The Greater Testament" (1456), and the "Smaller Testament: Its Codicil" (1461), both in eightline stanzas, with ballads and rondeaus interposed; a volume of "Ballades"; and a collection of poems in a jargon to-day unintelligible, "Jargon." He died about 1484. a