• Basin is a chanson de geste about Charlemagne's childhood. While the Old French epic poem has been lost, the story has come down to us via a 13th-century...
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    but later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson. Although he recorded most of his songs in French and occasionally in Flemish...
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  • its nightlife, with night clubs, pubs, bars and singing bars ("boîte à chanson"), Latin clubs, African clubs, jazz clubs, lounges, after-hours houses...
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  • before his death in 2009. It features appearances from Carlos Santana, the Notorious B.I.G., and Slash. It incorporates R&B, pop and soul, and similarly to...
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    the original on November 16, 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2021. Cette chanson fait office de nouveau single. [This song serves as a new single.] Helman...
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    compositions are mainly vocal. They include masses, motets and secular chansons. Josquin's biography has been continually revised by modern scholarship...
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    Leningrad (band) (category Russian chanson)
    the late 1990s. Leningrad worked in Gypsy punk style and soon became notorious for vulgar lyrics (including much Russian mat) and celebration of drinking...
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  • cantillation, cantion, canto, cantor, cantus, canzona, canzone, Carmen, chanson, chansonnier, chant, chanteur, chanteuse, chanticleer, charm, concent,...
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    Mind Body & Soul — Joss Stone (2004) Olympia — Bryan Ferry (2010) Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvée — Etienne Daho (2013) "Lay Me Down" — Avicii and...
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    be found in France, amongst such writers as Pierre Louys, author of Les chansons de Bilitis (1894) (a celebration of lesbianism and sexual awakening). Pioneering...
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  • 27, 2014. The Queen of Czechoslovak chanson has a 'Mill Wheel' in her heart; The first lady of Czechoslovak chanson Hana Hegerová has released a new studio...
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    by director Tinto Brass to play Drusilla, the incestuous sister of a notorious Roman emperor, opposite A Clockwork Orange star Malcolm McDowell, in the...
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    F. Gressier; R. Colle; A. Rigal; S. Martin; C. Verstuyft; B. Fève; P. Chanson; L. Becquemont; E. Corruble (January 2022). "Nitric Oxide Synthase activity...
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  • doctors" as both Courville and Cotroni had a reputation for promoting la chanson française at a time when many French-Canadians felt that their culture...
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    May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014 – via YouTube. "Zidane célébré dans une chanson !". L'Équipe. Paris. 3 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 October...
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    Morfydd Llwyn Owen wrote song settings for Musset's "La Tristesse" and "Chanson de Fortunio". Lili Boulanger's Pour les funérailles d'un soldat for baritone...
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    disposition, his overweening vanity and his habit of composing libellous chansons made him eventually the enemy of most persons of position both in the army...
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    February 2014. Album booklet. "Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry – 7 Seconds (chanson)". lescharts.com > (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 May 2016. Bui...
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    October 2017). "Le charme de Danielle Darrieux agissait également dans ses chansons". Le Figaro. "Danielle Darrieux". Life. 4 July 1938. pp. 39–41. "Danielle...
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    a solo single, "HYPNTZ". The song's lyrics were taken from rapper The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize", while its instrumental sampled a cover of "Starman"...
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    De la lecture des vieux romans (printed 1870), in which he praises the chanson de geste, forgotten by his generation. Chapelain refused many honours,...
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    2009, at the Wayback Machine, September 23, 2009. "Marie-Mai compose une chanson pour le film L'appât". La Presse, December 2, 2010. Maxime Rioux. "Marie-Mai...
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    entitled now "C'est elle qui ordonne" (It Is She Who Orders) for their album "Chansons 1925". The song was sung by Christian Duvaleix, the French actor, director...
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    juxtaposed with commissioned paintings by Guy Peellaert. In On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song, 1997), his tribute to television works of Dennis Potter...
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  • 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2010. "JAY-Z + ALICIA KEYS – EMPIRE STATE OF MIND (CHANSON)". LesCharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on April 15,...
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    3 Sak Noel Spain "Loca People" 2011 1 The Notorious B.I.G. United States "Nasty Girl" 2006 2 The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge...
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    Date Title Author Notes 1429 "Chanson en l'honneur de Jeanne d'Arc" Christine de Pizan An elegiac poem written during Joan's lifetime. The author's final...
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  • like greed or betrayal. Notable Stereotype Works The Chanson de Roland: For instance, in La Chanson de Roland, Jews are portrayed in a negative light, reflecting...
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    became good friends, and Verne wrote several texts for Hignard to set as chansons. During this period, Verne's letters to his parents primarily focused on...
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    a giant and they live in a palace made of jewels. In the 13th-century chanson de geste story of another Paladin, Huon of Bordeaux, Morgan is a protector...
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