Inside the Académie Française: Two poems by Sir Michael Edwards
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Channel: FRANCE 24 English · 2014 · News & Politics
Sir Michael Edwards, elected to the prestigious Académie Française in 2013, has written extensively about French and English literature, but he is foremost a poet. In this video he reads two versions - one in French, the other in English - of his ode to François Villon, a 15th century French poet.
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