Promotional postcard for If I Were King by Justin Huntly McCarthy. First produced in England at the St James?s Theatre, 30th August 1902.Made Grand Constable of France for a week, the great fifteenth century poet, Francois Villon, raises his sword in defiance of the Burgundian herald, left. King Louis XI is in black right. Katherine de Vaucelles kneels to Villon. (The climax of Act II.)