Abstract
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, professor at the University of Paris IV, dealing with "Alceste's Syndrome: François Villon et le vieux style entre nostalgie et polémique", subtly contrasted an old text with an old text, comparing Pierre Sala rewriting romans de chevalerie, Jean Molinet putting the Roman de la Roseinto prose , Clément Marot editing Villon and designating as such his "ballade en vieux langage français", observing that in theHeptaméron, the story of the chatelaine de Vergy is considered new, because it is old and therefore forgotten, commenting on the chanson d'Alceste and quoting remarks by Julien Green and Aragon on the meaning produced by the very difficulty and "vacillation" of language.
