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    many Old French chansons de geste. In particular, he features as the protagonist in La Chevalerie Ogier (c. 1220), which belongs to the Geste de Doon de...
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    Battle of Seven Oaks (category Battles involving the Hudson's Bay Company)
    wrote “La Chanson de la Grenouillère” about the battle. Demoralized from the losses, the settlers gathered their belongings the day after the battle and...
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    Siege of Ma'arra (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    the later Chanson d'Antioche, however, the Tafurs reappear as fanatics who "roast Saracen bodies on spits just outside Antioch's walls", shocking the...
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    Siege of Jerusalem (1099) (category 11th century in the Fatimid Caliphate)
    of the Chanson de Jérusalem, a major chanson de geste in the Crusade cycle. The first crusaders succeeded in their endeavor. Urban II had ignited the flame...
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  • the genre of visionary literature. Amy Amendt-Raduege writes that medieval dream visions, such as those of Geoffrey Chaucer, or those in the Chanson de...
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    Orleans (1235)) and the so-called "Renaissance of the 12th century"; a growing body of secular vernacular literature (including the chanson de geste, chivalric...
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    Rebo Tchulo (category French-language singers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
    of the Congo. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2024. "Découvrez le clip de la chanson « Top Model » de Innoss'B" [Discover the music video for the song...
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    minstrels. Often the stories were written down in the chansons de geste, or "songs of great deeds", such as The Song of Roland or The Song of Hildebrand...
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    seizing the police headquarters and other government buildings. The city was liberated by French and American troops on August 25th; the next day, General...
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    refrain dans la chanson française: de Bruant à Renaud (in French). Presses Univ. Limoges. ISBN 978-2-84287-096-6. Archived from the original on 1 January...
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  • "The Song of La Palice" (in French: La chanson de la Palisse) is a burlesque song attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye (1641–1728) about alleged feats...
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  • bourgeois life, Chansons had to parody them. However, on a twist of fate, the song of the impresario Fo-Lya "My liliputian-girl" (the text — Samuil Bolotin...
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    Hierosolymitana. The well-known chanson de geste, Chanson d'Antioche, describes the First Crusade from the original preaching through the taking of Antioch...
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    2014 – via YouTube. "Zidane célébré dans une chanson !". L'Équipe. Paris. 3 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 5 June...
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    Sea shanty (redirect from Grog Time o' Day)
    performers in their respective languages: French Hayet, Capt. Armand: Chansons de Bord. Paris: Editions Eos (1927). German Baltzer, R. and Klaus Prigge...
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    France (category Member states of the Union for the Mediterranean)
    literature was inspired by the legends of the Carolingian cycle, such as the Song of Roland and the chansons de geste. The Roman de Renart, written in...
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    the Chanson de Roland, an 11th-century French chanson de geste that offers a fictionalised retelling of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass dealing with the...
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    Castile at the Battle of Valdevez. (Approximate). The Castilian epic poem about El Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, is written. (Approximate). The Chanson de Guillaume...
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    Military conquests of Umar's era (category 610s in the Sasanian Empire)
    Chanson de Geste in the Middle Ages". Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 4: 76–78. JSTOR 25802579. Retrieved 8 November 2021. Nzomiwu, John Paul C. (1989). The...
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  • FIFA. 1 April 2022. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022. "'Arhbo' de Gims, chanson officielle du Mondial 2022 au Qatar"...
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    style de Primus. Qu'en penses-tu ? Les Claypool: Je ne sais pas si cette chanson en particulier nous a servi de base pour créer Primus, mais il est clair...
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    characterizations of the emperor as a leader of Christian knights in wars against Muslims. The cycle includes chansons de geste (epic poems) such as the Song of Roland...
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    embassies to the caliph of Baghdad, asking Frankish protectorate over the Holy Land. An epic chanson de geste recounts his legendary adventures in the Mediterranean...
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    Républicain. Archived from the original on 25 June 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024. "« Je partira pas » : ce que l'on sait sur cette chanson raciste que TikTok cherche...
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    Alain Delon (category French military personnel of the First Indochina War)
    Le Figaro.fr. Archived from the original on 19 August 2024. Retrieved 19 October 2019. "Alain Delon revient à la chanson avec le compositeur de Lara Fabian:...
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  • Anglo-Norman literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    of Hastings, and some Anglo-Norman manuscripts of chansons de geste have survived to this day. The Pélérinage de Charlemagne (Eduard Koschwitz, Altfranzösische...
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    including "everything from French chanson to piano-pounding blues to the clipped R&B of the Small Faces". Rapping in the same vein as artists like Betty...
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    Battle of Manzikert (category Battles of the Byzantine–Seljuk wars)
    in the Chanson de Roland in which the amirant of Babylon, Baligant, fights Charlemagne and is defeated only through the aid of Saint Gabriel. The battle...
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  • Blason Lai Virelai Pastourelle Complainte Chanson Chanson de toile ("weaving song") Chanson de croisade Chanson courtoise Rotrouenge Chant royal Aube ("dawn...
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    she performed in nine languages and a wide variety of styles, including chanson, schlager, Latin, rock'n'roll, and soul. After her death of Alzheimer's...
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