Hotel Les Neige d'Antan
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Les Neiges d'Antan are words of the medieval French poet François Villon.
The first cursed poet in history. Perhaps the most cursed of all.
Thief of treasures of a convent, killer of a priest during a fight over a woman, arrested, tortured, sentenced to hanging, pardoned, banished from Paris and wandering the streets of France.
A poet who inspired poets, writers and musicians.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a story featuring François Villon on the run: “A Roof for the Night”.
Rabelais made Villon a character in his novels.
Bertold Brecht used Villon's words and stories in two plays, Baal and The Threepenny Opera.
Fabrizio De André sang The Ballata degli Impiccati inspired by a poem by Villon.
And Georges Brassens, the famous French chansonnier that Maurizio Bich loved, had set to music the very poem that contains these words:
“Mais che sont les neiges d’antan?”. It is the Ballade des dames du temps jadis, the Ballad of the Women of Times Gone.
«Mais che sont les neiges d'antan?» “Where are the snows of old?” Villon melancholy compared the now melted snows to past and lost loves.
Luckily Les Neiges d'Antan is a love that will never be lost.