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Excerpt from The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Clerk of Paris, A. D. 1452: Being Seven Ballads From the Thieves' Argot of the Xvth Century
Every trade, profession, and society has had, more or less, in all periods, many ex, pressions or even a complete language of its own. In the Middle Ages we find the Mendicants organized into guilds, in the same manner as were the different trades, each with its language. So we are told it was with certain bands of robbers, thieves, and cut/purses, as the Coquillards, whose language was the Jargon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
