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    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...
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    Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the deeds of the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux...
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  • "Chanson D'Amour" (French for 'Love Song'; pronounced [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ damuʁ]) is a popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. A 1977 recording by the Manhattan Transfer...
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  • Nouvelle Chanson (French pronunciation: [nuvɛl ʃɑ̃sɔ̃], meaning "New Song"), derived from the French expression nouvelle scène française, sometimes anglicized...
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    Retrieved 24 June 2014. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help) ""Dernière danse" d'Indila devient la première chanson francophone à atteindre un milliard...
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    Lyubov Uspenskaya (category Russian chanson)
    "urban romance" or Russian "chanson" (Russian: городской романс, gorodskoy romans) style. Multiple winner of the "Chanson of the Year" (Russian: Шансон...
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    Orly is a chanson (song) in French by the Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. It was recorded on September 5, 1977 and released on Brel's last long-playing...
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  • accident. The score was not published until 1911. A performance of the Chanson lasts about six or seven minutes. Jean-Aubrey, G. (1918). "A French Composer:...
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  • famous songs from the film are "A Pair of Twins" ("Chanson des Jumelles") and Maxence's Song ("Chanson de Maxence"), which was later relyricized by Alan...
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    repeatedly chanting "hier soir le D.J. a sauvé mon âme avec cette chanson" ("last night the D.J. saved my soul with this song"). The song was sampled...
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    its spiritual successor Super Uho festival. Šibenik hosts the Dalmatian Chanson Evenings festival (Večeri Dalmatinske Šansone), held in the second half...
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  • Virelai (redirect from Chanson Baladée)
    refrain at the beginning, with each stanza ending with a repetition of either the first or the second refrain verse in alternation, and the last stanza...
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    Édith Piaf (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and...
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  • performed eighth at the contest and placed second, receiving 17 points. Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF) aired Sept villes, une chanson on its television...
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  • The Chansons gaillardes (Ribald songs) FP 42, are a song cycle of eight pieces composed by Francis Poulenc in 1925–1926 "In euphoria and post-war" on anonymous...
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  • 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...
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  • Bernreuther the Chanson days as artistic director until the end of 1992. The mid-80s the Chanson days were moved to Langeln. The last time they were 1992...
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    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...
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  • Yde et Olive is a thirteenth-century chanson de geste written in decasyllabic monorhyming laisses in a Picard-influenced dialect of Old French. It is...
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  • La Chanson Perdue is an album by the American musician Geno Delafose, released in 1998. He is credited with his band, French Rockin' Boogie. Delafose...
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    The Tales of Hoffmann (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    occasion to sneak in, and the lovers are re-united (love duet: "C'est une chanson d'amour" – "It's a love song"). After Crespel returns, he receives a visit...
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    which last participated in 1973 and 1972, respectively. Broadcasters in Greece, which participated for the first time in 1974, and Austria, last seen in...
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    traditional nursery rhymes in a record collection called Le jardin des chansons. Several of her songs were used for the openings of animated series featured...
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  • the first decades of the 16th century, and at Cambrai later. Gascongne wrote masses, motets and chansons. Nine masses have been attributed to him, but...
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    Alain Bashung (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    French singer, songwriter and actor. Credited with reviving the French chanson in "a time of French musical turmoil", he is often regarded as the most...
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  • The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...
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  • Valse de l'amour 1951 La Rue aux chansons 1951 Jezebel 1951 Chante-moi With M. Jiteau 1951 Chanson de Catherine 1951 Chanson bleue 1951 Je hais les dimanches...
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    Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne 1957 (English: Eurovision Grand Prize of European Song 1957) was held on Sunday 3 March 1957 and was hosted at the Großer...
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  • as one of the most popular French-language songs and a staple of French chanson. A painter, recalling his younger years in Montmartre, remembers his artistic...
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  • Love Songs (French: Les Chansons d'amour) is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Clotilde...
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