Chez François Villon

Chez François Villon, Brussels, Belgium, circa 1985.

Chez François Villon

In Ixelles, « Chez François Villon » was a pub just like any other. Except that it sat between the university and the cemetery, quickly putting some perspective into the meaning of life, and that for a students’ pub, these weren’t even the die-hards. Aside from the Saint–Verhaegen, the “Villon”, that was us. We lived there ; our adventures, our friendships, our crazy antics, sometimes our love stories were born and died there, in the thick heady warmth of the woodwork steeped in tobacco, beer, tears and laughter.