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  • Thumbnail for Orly (chanson)
    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...
    28 KB (4,302 words) - 08:00, 9 June 2024
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    Renaud de Montauban (category Chansons de geste)
    Montalbaen) was a legendary hero and knight which appeared in a 12th-century Old French chanson de geste known as The Four Sons of Aymon. The four sons of...
    14 KB (1,830 words) - 07:39, 21 August 2024
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    William of Gellone (category Characters in epic poems)
    hero of an entire cycle of chansons de geste, the earliest of which is the Chanson de Guillaume of about 1140. In the chansons, he is nicknamed Fièrebrace...
    10 KB (1,085 words) - 23:08, 5 September 2024
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    vocabulary of chansons de geste can be examined, narrative sources are of little help in studying the precise process by which coats of arms are born. The...
    78 KB (9,060 words) - 10:44, 12 September 2024
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    Prince of Orange (category 1160s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire)
    Horn). The chanson appears to incorporate material relating to William of Gellone's battle at the Orbieu or Orbiel river near Carcassonne in 793 as well...
    76 KB (5,299 words) - 03:18, 4 September 2024
  • charms, For it's early in the morning and I'm far, far away. Chorus 4. I have three brothers and they are at rest, Their arms are folded on their chest...
    7 KB (772 words) - 13:50, 13 August 2024
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    Ogier the Dane (category Chansons de geste)
    paladin of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French chansons de geste. In particular, he features as the protagonist in La Chevalerie Ogier (c. 1220), which...
    43 KB (4,723 words) - 17:45, 15 September 2024
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    Maurice Chevalier (category French prisoners of war in World War I)
    m'en de la chanson" (1961) "Enjoy It!" (1962) "Le twist du canotier" (1962) "Jolies mômes de mon quartier" (1962) "Moi, avec une chanson" (1962) "Au...
    34 KB (4,000 words) - 16:08, 10 September 2024
  • prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology...
    2 KB (1,500 words) - 00:54, 30 August 2024
  • The Baker's Wife (category Musicals set in France)
    Denise, the wife of the proprietor, tends to her chores while singing "Chanson": first in French, then English. She sees the same faces every day, but sometimes...
    29 KB (3,535 words) - 06:32, 28 July 2024
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    Bertrand du Guesclin (category French prisoners of war in the Hundred Years' War)
    Roman d'Aquin, a thirteenth-century French chanson de geste from Brittany. He initially served Charles of Blois in the Breton War of Succession (1341–1364)...
    15 KB (1,663 words) - 16:51, 19 August 2024
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    1482), in honour of her betrothal to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461). It contains a unique collection of fifteen texts in French, including chansons de geste...
    20 KB (2,690 words) - 22:13, 15 April 2024
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    List of Edison Blue Amberol Records: Popular Series (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2018)
    company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory—though occasionally employing Bakelite in its...
    271 KB (409 words) - 15:36, 24 September 2024
  • Want To Be Right" Foot Loose & Fancy Free Yes The Keane Brothers "Help! Help!" Keane Brothers Yes Yes Yes "The Ugly One" Yes Yes Yes "Goodbye Summer"...
    152 KB (151 words) - 10:31, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alain Delon
    achieved critical acclaim for his roles in films such as Women Are Weak (1959), Purple Noon (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), L'Eclisse (1962), The Leopard...
    215 KB (21,745 words) - 14:55, 18 October 2024
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    Baphomet (category Demons in Christianity)
    chansons de geste. For example, one finds the gods Bafum e Travagan in a Provençal poem on the life of St. Honorat, completed in 1300. In the Chanson...
    65 KB (7,815 words) - 21:46, 7 October 2024
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    compositions are mainly vocal. They include masses, motets and secular chansons. Josquin's biography has been continually revised by modern scholarship...
    112 KB (13,218 words) - 08:10, 15 October 2024
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    Toulouse Sumption 1978, p. 77. Rist 2009, p. 49-50. Rowlands 2018, p. 74. Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise laisse 171; Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronica...
    15 KB (1,685 words) - 22:16, 29 September 2024
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    historical coat of arms of Nizhny Novgorod in 1781 was a red deer with black horns and hooves on a white field. The modern coat of arms from 2006 is the...
    90 KB (8,926 words) - 10:50, 26 September 2024
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    Celine Dion (category All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English)
    as pop, rock, R&B, chanson, and classical music. Her recordings have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in several other languages...
    267 KB (24,658 words) - 11:47, 18 October 2024
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