A chanson (UK: /ˈʃɒ̃sɒ̃/, US: /ʃɑːnˈsɔːn/; French: chanson française [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] , lit. 'French song') is generally any lyric-driven French song...
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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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Russian chanson (Russian: русский шансон, romanized: russkiy shanson; from French "chanson") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian...
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Song of Roland (redirect from Chanson de Roland)
The Song of 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...
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The Chanson d'Antioche is a chanson de geste in 9000 lines of Alexandrin in stanzas called laisses, now known in a version composed about 1180 for a courtly...
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Durendal (section In the Chanson de Roland)
The sword is famous for its hardness and sharpness. Sources including La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) state that it first belonged to the young...
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Chanson was an American studio-based disco group from the late 1970s, led by bassist James Jamerson Jr. (born in Detroit, Michigan, 1957–2016) and guitarist...
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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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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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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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Song of the Albigensian Crusade (redirect from La Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise)
Albigensian Crusade from March 1208 to June 1219. Modelled on the Old French chanson de geste, it was composed in two distinct parts: William of Tudela wrote...
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Indila (category CS1 errors: generic name)
June 2014. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help) ""Dernière danse" d'Indila devient la première chanson francophone à atteindre un milliard de vues...
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Lullaby (Slimani novel) (redirect from Chanson Douce)
Lullaby (French: Chanson douce, lit. 'Sweet song'; published as The Perfect Nanny in the United States) is a 2016 novel by French author Leïla Slimani...
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La Bonne Chanson is a collection of poems written by Paul Verlaine from the winter of 1869 to the spring of 1870. Twenty-one poems belong to this group...
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Geste du roi (category Chansons de geste)
the title of one of the literary cycles that compose the Chansons de Geste. In the Chansons of the Geste du roi, the chief character is usually Charlemagne...
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Šibenik (redirect from Dalmatian Chanson Evenings)
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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Chanson d'Aspremont (or simply Aspremont, or Agolant) is a 12th-century Old French chanson de geste (before 1190). The poem comprises 11, 376 verses (unusually...
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Paris (redirect from Name of Paris and its inhabitants)
ISBN 978-981-282-079-2. Leclanche, Maria Spyropoulou (1998). Le refrain dans la chanson française: de Bruant à Renaud (in French). Presses Univ. Limoges. ISBN 978-2-84287-096-6...
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Gaydon is a chanson de geste written in about 1230 AD. It recounts the story of Thierry, friend of Charlemagne in the Chanson de Roland, for whom "Gaydon"...
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La Chanson du Dimanche is a French musical group founded in 2007. In the tradition of the French chansonniers, their concept is to broadcast a new song...
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The GDR-open Chanson days Kloster Michaelstein had a meeting a majority of critical singer-songwriter and folklorist in Michaelstein Abbey, where "everyone...
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Chansons madécasses (Madagascan Songs) is a set of three exotic art songs by Maurice Ravel written in 1925 and 1926 to words from the poetry collection...
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List of musicians from Quebec (section Chanson)
Laure – also chanson Daniel Lavoie – also chanson Murray Lightburn Loud (rapper) Lubalin Amanda Mabro Marie-Mai Marilou – also chanson Julie Masse Men...
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novel, published in 1826 Vivien de Monbranc, hero of a 12th-century French chanson de geste Vivian Alamain, on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives Vivian...
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La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, by Gabriel Fauré, is a song cycle of nine mélodies for voice and piano. He composed it during 1892–94; in 1898 he created a...
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La Chanson de Craonne (French pronunciation: [la ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ də kʁa(ɔ)n]; English: The Song of Craonne) is an anti-military song of World War I written in...
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Turold and its derivatives were popular names at the time of the creation of the oldest surviving copy of the Chanson de Roland, it is also possible the Turoldus...
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Tidal bore (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
S2CID 130530635.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Koch, C. and Chanson, H. (2009). "Turbulence Measurements in Positive Surges...
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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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