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    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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    couplets) 1180–84 Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii (Treatise on the Purgatory of St Patrick) by H[enry] of Saltrey By 1129 Manasollasa composed by Someshvara...
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    man's soul from his deathbed to his judgment before God and settling into Purgatory. Elgar disapproved of the use of the term "oratorio" for the work (and...
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    of Christ in the Eucharist and Catholic teaching on the existence of Purgatory. Cathar meetings were fairly simple. In a typical gathering, those present...
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    offerings to the Fatherless, pp. 81–82 "Dante's Meeting with Casello in Purgatory". (From "Il Purgatorio"—Canto II.) January 1848, in The New Monthly Belle...
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  • as prefiguring Protestantism in that they denied transubstantiation, purgatory, prayers for the dead and prayers to saints. They also believed that the...
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  • proactive, prodigality, prodigence, purgament, purgation, purgative, purgatory, purge, react, reaction, reactionary, reactive, reactor, reagent, redact...
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  • "The Song of La Palice" (in French: La chanson de la Palisse) is a burlesque song attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye (1641–1728) about alleged feats...
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  • Finnishcharts.com. Retrieved 26 April 2013. "Iron Maiden - 'The Trooper' (chanson)". SNEP (in French). Lescharts.com. Retrieved 26 April 2013. "Offizielle...
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  • Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936). Chanson de Roland. La Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on Frankish military...
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    specifically exempts Ruthenians from accepting the Filioque clause and Purgatory as a condition for reconciliation. The Counter-Reformation succeeded in...
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  • into three different realms of the dead, Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), with the Roman poet Virgil and Beatrice, Dante's...
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    length, and relate “incidents and motifs common in legend, romance and chanson de geste.” The story describes a trauma that unfolds in the household of...
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  • (Hell) with nine circles Hell, the Purgatorio (the purification realm or Purgatory) with seven penitential districts, and finally to the Paridiso (Paradise)...
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    1282. Casella died in 1299 or early in the year 1300, since Dante enters Purgatory in 1300. From what is said of him in Purgatorio, Canto II, it appears...
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    unaccompanied choir ("Chanson à boire", 1922), Poulenc began writing choral music in 1936. In that year he produced three works for choir: Sept chansons (settings...
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    tells of the poet's travels through the three realms of the dead—Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise—accompanied by the Latin poet Virgil. An allegorical meaning...
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