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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: an official of the Chatelet and expressly pardoned Villon,
and died on the following Saturday in the Hotel Dieu.
This, as I have said, was in June. Not before January of the
next year could Villon extract a pardon from the king; but
while his hand was in, he got two. One is for "Francois des
Loges, alias (AUTREMENT DIT) de Villon;" and the other runs
in the name of Francois de Montcorbier. Nay, it appears
there was a further complication; for in the narrative of the
first of these documents, it is mentioned that he passed
himself off upon Fouquet, the barber-surgeon, as one Michel
Mouton. M. Longnon has a theory that this unhappy accident
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