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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Chanson des Chétifs ("song of the captives") is an Old French chanson de geste falling about halfway through the Old French Crusade Cycle (a series...
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  • musician Serge Gainsbourg, released in 1962. It is his last to feature his original style blending chanson and jazz, with a more varied approach with Latino...
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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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    Serge Gainsbourg (category Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery)
    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...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Gabriel Fauré (category Burials at Passy Cemetery)
    including L'Absent, Seule! and La Chanson du pêcheur." When Fauré returned to Paris in October 1871, he was appointed choirmaster at the Église Saint-Sulpice under...
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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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  • and chanson singer. Emília Došeková was born on 14 June 1937 in Bratislava. She grew up in her mother hometown of Krupina and received education at the...
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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 cycle is made up of three independent pieces: Chanson Romanesque, Chanson épique, and Chanson à boire. The text was written by the librettist Paul...
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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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    is best known for co-starring opposite Marlon Brando in the controversial Last Tango in Paris (1972), which was noted for its graphic sexuality. Schneider...
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