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Plaisir d'amour. " Plaisir d'amour " ([plɛ.ziʁ da.muʁ], "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine. The song was greatly successful in Martini's version.
Finally, French is known as the “language of love.” Well-spoken French can sound uniquely light, gentle, and sophisticated, lending itself well to poetry, music, and pledges of undying love.
French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest ...
Language of Love, 1961 charting album by John D. Loudermilk. The Language of Love, 2003 album by Carol Welsman. The Language of Love, classical album by Duo Trobairitz - Faye Newton (soprano) and Hazel Brooks (vielle)
Portrait of Victor Cousin by Gustave Le Gray (1855-1860). In 1843, Victor Cousin research led him to the Bibliothèque royale, [Note 1] where he discovered what he believed to be the collection of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, [4] [5] [Note 2] an in-quarto manuscript collection dated from the seventeenth century, [Note 3] the contents of which read "Discours sur les passions de l'amour ...
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; French: ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th [2] and the mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language , Old French was a group of Romance dialects , mutually intelligible yet diverse .
France. OCLC. 10314663. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (French: Fragments d’un discours amoureux) is a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. It contains a list of "fragments", some of which come from literature and some from his own philosophical thought, of a lover's point of view. Barthes calls them "figures"—gestures of the lover at work.
e. The lais of Marie de France are a series of twelve short narrative Breton lais by the poet Marie de France. They are written in Anglo-Norman and were probably composed in the late 12th century, most likely between 1155-1170. [1][2] The short, narrative poems generally focus on glorifying the concept of courtly love by the adventures of their ...