The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic...

all the chansons de geste. Other, later versions of the chanson range from 14,300 to 28,000 verses. Of the dozen extant versions of the chanson, all are...

March 2013. (in French) Histoire des canuts (in French) La chanson d'Aristide Bruant : Les canuts. (in French) La chanson d'Eric la Blanche : Les canuts....

La Chanson de Craonne (French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də kʁa(ɔ)n]; English: The Song of Craonne) is an anti-military song of World War I written in...

was borrowed from a well-known Roman Catholic French song titled "Autre chanson de la ville de Chartres assiégée par le prince de Condé" (transl. Another...

(German: [ˈhana ʃyˈɡʊla] ; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder...

public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica...

Maugris or Maugis was one of the heroes of the chansons de geste and romances of chivalry and the Matter of France that tell of the legendary court of...

The Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers was a mass movement in 1907 in Languedoc and the Pyrénées-Orientales of France that was repressed by the government...

and the mid-1970s. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, including "Avec le temps", "C'est extra", "Jolie Môme" and...

name in French, from the character his deeds inspired in the chanson de geste, the Chanson de Guillaume: "Guillaume au Court-nez" (William the Short-Nosed)...

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...

would have heard it in 1539 on his march to suppress the Revolt of Ghent. He wrote around 20 chansons, 15 motets, and 2 masses. Courtois’ work exhibits the...

during the student revolts in France in 1968. With age, he became acclaimed as being one of the better interpreters of the chanson and for bringing the...

of the Old French chansons de geste, who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances dealing with the feudal revolts. There is no single...

1993. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-9519791-1-2. Antonio Ubieto Arteta (1985). La Chanson de Roland y algunos problemas históricos (PDF) (in Spanish). Zaragoza:...

epic theatre of Bertolt Brecht. Realism in the arts Socialist realism Chanson réaliste Naturalism (theatre) Hartnoll, Phyllis; Found, Peter, eds. (2003)...

801–802. doi:10.1353/cat.0.0546. S2CID 159618901. Meyer, Paul (1879). La Chanson de la Croisade Contre les Albigeois Commencée par Guillaume de Tudèle et...

the original. The Oriflamme was mentioned in the 11th-century ballad the Chanson de Roland (vv. 3093–5) as a royal banner, first called Romaine and then...

things as they had been before the war. The battle put down the Poitevin revolt and marked the end of Henry III's hopes of restoring the Angevin Empire...

that the Old Testament scribes spun their legends or the creator of the Chanson de Roland wove his epic, for even today it remains the pleasant obstinacy...

Franks and returned with great loot. In 785, the inhabitants of Girona revolted against the Umayyad rule and placed themselves under the rule of the Franks...

legendary and in the 12th century it was the subject of the Chanson de Jérusalem, a major chanson de geste in the Crusade cycle. The first crusaders succeeded...

palace Charles Martel, but he tried three times to throw it off in open revolt (736, 742 and 745). He was unsuccessful, although he did manage to retain...

poems from the ensemble later called "Derniers vers" or "Vers nouveaux et chansons", albeit with significant variations). Here Rimbaud continues to develop...

through the Ardennes, told in Les Quatre Fils Aymon, a famous 12th-century chanson de geste. In reality the rock has been divided by the soldiers of Louis...

E. Vakalopoulos. Baud-Bovy, Samuel (1958). Études sur la chanson cleftique, avec 17 chansons cleftiques de Roumelie transcrites d'après les disques des...

manuscript of the Chanson de Roland, readable online images of the complete original, Bodleian Library MS. Digby 23 (Pt 2), La Chanson de Roland, Anglo-Norman...

colonie française de Nosy Be, Nord-Ouest de Madagascar (1839–1896)", in Chanson-Jabeur Ch., Morlat P., Forest A., Colonisations et Répressions, Paris,...

Jacques Canetti settled in Paris, where he championed a revival of French chanson. Despite being a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain until...