distress, dragons, and other romantic tropes. Originally, romance literature was written in Old French (including Anglo-Norman), Old Occitan, and Early Franco-Provençal...
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Romance (Romance X) is a 1999 French arthouse film written and directed by Catherine Breillat. It stars Caroline Ducey, Rocco Siffredi, Sagamore Stévenin...
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million native speakers of Romance languages found worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa. Portuguese, French and Spanish also have...
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The term romance (Spanish: romance/romanza, Italian: romanza, German: Romanze, French: romance, Russian: романс, Portuguese: romance, Romanian: romanţă)...
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The Love Mates (category Articles containing French-language text)
The Love Mates (French: Madly) is a 1970 French romance film starring Alain Delon and Mireille Darc. The film was a financial disappointment, with admissions...
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Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include...
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In the French Style is a 1963 French-American romance film released by Columbia Pictures directed by Robert Parrish and starring Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker...
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Occitano-Romance languages of Occitania, now the south of France. The mid-14th century witnessed the emergence of Middle French, the language of the French Renaissance...
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It shares features with both French and Occitan. Other language families often included in Gallo-Romance: Occitano-Romance, including languages and dialects...
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Guillaume de Palerme (category Medieval French romances)
Palerne") is a French romance poem, later translated into English where it is also known as William and the Werewolf. The French verse romance was composed...
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by Georges Delerue. The film follows a French boy and an American girl who meet in Paris and begin a romance that leads to a journey to Venice where...
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The Eastern Romance languages are a group of Romance languages. The group, also called the Balkan Romance or Daco-Romance languages, comprises the Romanian...
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The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languages are a group of Romance languages that developed on the Iberian Peninsula, an area consisting...
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Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual...
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A romance novel or romantic novel is a genre fiction novel that primary focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two people, typically with...
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French (français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from...
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Perceval, the Story of the Grail (category Medieval French romances)
the Grail (French: Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) is the unfinished fifth verse romance by Chrétien de Troyes, written by him in Old French in the late...
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Robert the Devil (category Medieval French romances)
information on Robert's family is given. Then it appears in a French metrical romance of the 13th century, in which Robert is described as the son of...
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the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and, since the Lancelot-Grail cycle, eventually came to be described...
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centaurs. In this context, the term Romance refers not to the meaning of the word in modern times but in the Old French sense of a novel or roman, a "lengthy...
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Italo-Dalmatian languages (redirect from Italo-Romance)
Italo-Dalmatian languages, or Central Romance languages, are a group of Romance languages spoken in Italy, Corsica (France), and formerly in Dalmatia (Croatia)...
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languages of France, French is the sole official language according to the second article of the French Constitution. French, a Gallo-Romance language, is...
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13th-century anonymous romance, written in the Occitan language in Occitania. Most literary allusions in the text are from Old French sources. A certain Sir...
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Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through...
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Tristan (category Medieval French romances)
recent Romance languages version, including French, has been paretymologically associated with "sadness" (compare Latin tristis "sad", Old French triste...
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French exhibits perhaps the most extensive phonetic changes (from Latin) of any of the Romance languages. Similar changes are seen in some of the northern...
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The Sense of Wonder (category French romance films)
Sense of Wonder (original title: Le Goût des merveilles) is a 2015 French romance film written and directed by Éric Besnard. It stars Virginie Efira and...
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"Bad Romance" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third extended play (EP), The Fame Monster (2009)—the reissue of her debut studio album...
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Romance: Untold is the second Korean-language studio album by South Korean boy band Enhypen, released on July 12, 2024, through Belift Lab. The album...
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Italo-Western languages (redirect from Italo-Western Romance)
largest branch of the Romance languages. It comprises two of the branches of Romance languages: Italo-Dalmatian and Western Romance. It excludes the Sardinian...
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