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In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Vers libre is the source of the English term free verse, and is effectively identical in meaning. It can be seen as a radical extension of the tendencies of both vers libres (various and unpredictable line lengths) and vers libéré (weakening of strictures for caesura and rhymes, as well as experimentation with unusual line lengths).
The unit of vers libre is not the foot, the number of the syllables, the quantity, or the line. The unit is the strophe, which may be the whole poem or only a part. Each strophe is a complete circle. [34] Vers libre is "verse-formal based upon cadence that allows the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader." [35]
Georges de Brébeuf was born into an illustrious Norman family, most likely at Torigni-sur-Vire, Manche. [3] One of his ancestors had followed William the Conqueror into England, and he was himself the nephew of the Jesuit missionary to Canada Jean de Brébeuf (who was later made a saint after his death at the hands of the Iroquois).
"Le bon roi Dagobert" (French for "The good king Dagobert") is a French satirical anti-monarchical and anti-clerical song written around 1787. [1] It references two historical figures: the Merovingian king Dagobert I (c. 600–639) and his chief advisor, Saint Eligius (Éloi) (c. 588–660), the bishop of Noyon .
Boabdil's Farewell to Granada (French: L'Adieu du roi Boabdil à Grenade) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Dehodencq. It was first exhibited at the Salon of 1869 and is currently in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. [1] [2] There are numerous drawn studies and two painted sketches by Dehodencq that show little variation with the ...
La Ballade des seigneurs du temps jadis (Ballad of the Lords of former times) is one of the poems by François Villon which follows the Ballade des dames du temps jadis and precedes Ballade en vieil langage françoys which constitute the triptych of the ballads at the center of his Testament or Grand Testament, [1] [2] at the opposite of the Small Testament, whose very name appears undue, even ...
La Nation, la Loi, le Roi (lit. ' The Nation, the Law, the King ' ) was the national motto of France during the constitutional period of the French monarchy , and is an example of a tripartite motto – much like the popular revolutionary slogan; Liberté, égalité, fraternité .