Introduction", International School of Toulouse Sumption 1978, p. 77. Rist 2009, p. 49-50. Rowlands 2018, p. 74. Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise laisse 171;...

28 February 1105), also called Raymond IV of Toulouse or Raymond I of Tripoli, was the count of Toulouse, duke of Narbonne, and margrave of Provence from...

hero of an entire cycle of chansons de geste, the earliest of which is the Chanson de Guillaume of about 1140. In the chansons, he is nicknamed Fièrebrace...

on certain famous posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He has also been credited as the creator of the chanson réaliste musical genre. Born Louis Armand...

Toulouse. The text was first edited by Claude Charles Fauriel in 1837. The first critical edition was published with a French translation, as Chanson...

Pons (II) William (1019–1060) was the Count of Toulouse from 1037. He was the eldest son and successor of William III Taillefer and Emma of Provence. He...

1835: 7,50 m at Toulouse Pont-Neuf Flood of the Garonne in 1855: 7.25 m at Toulouse Pont-Neuf Flood of the Garonne in 1875: 9,70 m to Toulouse Pont-Neuf (or...

a heraldic cross, today chiefly used as a symbol of Occitania. In the Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise, it goes by the name of "Raymondine cross" (crotz...

playwright and songwriter Maurice Lefèvre said of her Let's enter the Chanson Moderne. There she is! Long leech, sexless! She crawls, creeps with hissings...

significant reduction of practicing Cathars and a realignment of the County of Toulouse with the French crown. The distinct regional culture of Languedoc was also...

involving Charlemagne and the Paladins. The cycle springs from the Old French chansons de geste, and was later adapted into a variety of art forms, including...

de Marselha (alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse; c. 1150 – 25 December 1231) came from a Genoese merchant family...

Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941. Their best known...

in the latter, notably for his battle at Muret. He died at the Siege of Toulouse in 1218. He was Lord of Montfort from 1188 to his death and Earl of Leicester...

just been bestowed on Baldwin, estranged brother of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse. The result of this move (and possibly one of its aims) was that William...

to have been chosen to mirror the twelve paladins of Charlemagne in the Chanson de geste (see below). Parallels may also be seen with the mythical Knights...

Compilation Paysâme 2006 : Compilation Toulouse en chanson 2004 : L'envers de l'ange 2001 : Live for Dimey – Made in Toulouse (with Lionel Suarez) 1999 : Les...

romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The oldest playable musical recordings were made in...

French jazz singer and poet. Claude Nougaro was born on 9 September 1929 in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher...

1581, Catholic Antoine de Bertrand, a prolific composer of chansons, was murdered in Toulouse by a Protestant mob. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...

Grand Rex 2005 2000: Chansons et Rimes (specially edited for Quebec) 2003: Ma vie mon œuvre (vol.1) – vingt ans, vingt chansons 2014: Double best of –...

professional rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Top 14 club Toulouse and captains the France national team. Dupont has won the World Rugby Men's...

Drinker, is a late 1880s, oil on canvas painting by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The painting was created just before he became successful as an...

The Crusade cycle is an Old French literary cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath. The cycle contains a number of initially...

murdered while returning to Rome after excommunicating Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, who, in his view, was too lenient with the Cathars. Pope Innocent III...

Fierabras, a fictional Saracen knight in several chansons de geste William of Gellone, duke of Toulouse (r. 790–811) All pages with titles beginning with...

century"; a growing body of secular vernacular literature (including the chanson de geste, chivalric romance, troubadour and trouvère poetry, etc.) and...

role during the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. When Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse declined the offer to become ruler of the new kingdom, Godfrey accepted...

was responsible for the Treaty of Paris, in which Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, submitted to Louis. By the terms of the agreement, his daughter and heir...

moraux Lai Virelai Pastourelle Complainte Chanson Chanson de toile ("weaving song") Chanson de croisade Chanson courtoise Rotrouenge Chant royal Aube ("dawn...