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"Marche Henri IV", alternatively "Vive Henri IV" or "Vive le roi Henri", is a popular French song celebrating King Henry IV of France (also known as Le Bon Roi Henri, "Good King Henry"). The melody was heard of as early as 1581, when it was mentioned in the book of Christmas songs of Christophle de Bordeaux, under the name "Chant de la
The French army took Bonny-sur-Loire [16] and Saint-Fargeau. Joan of Arc broke her sword on the back of a camp follower. [17] Two days later the Dauphin ordered a march to the city of the coronation: the march began at Gien on 29 June 1429. The ease of the march showed both the fragility of the Anglo-Burgundian rule and the restoration of ...
It was first publicly performed by the baritone Lucien Fugère in a Paris cabaret on 3 March 1870. [2] Quickly finding favor as a popular song, it became a part of the music curriculum in schools during the French Third Republic, and was used at other important moments in French history during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1]
The battle was a disastrous blow to English aspirations in France. For the French, it cemented the turn of fortune which had begun at Orléans and concluded a highly successful campaign. The latter was followed by a march to Reims which saw the Dauphin Charles be crowned King of France. The Hundred Years' War, however, would continue until 1453.
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro (The Journey to Reims, or The Hotel of the Golden Fleur-de-lis) is an operatic dramma giocoso, originally performed in three acts, [1] by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Balocchi [], based in part on the 1807 novel Corinne ou l'Italie by Germaine de Staël.
Robert de Reins (Rains, Reims) La Chievre was a trouvère from the Île de France, probably active in the thirteenth century.He is among those trouvères, like Richard de Fournival, who are associated with the early development of the motet and who may be more numerous than previously believed.
The first use of the term air de cour was in Adrian Le Roy's Airs de cour miz sur le luth (Book on Court Tunes for the Luth), [1] a collection of music published in 1571. The earliest examples of the form are for solo voice accompanied by lute; [2] towards the end of the 16th century, four or five voices are common, sometimes accompanied (or instrumental accompaniment may have been optional ...
The Music of the Foreign Legion (MLE) is requested and demanded in France as well as overseas in international military music festivals. [2] The music is produced frequently in various civilian lieu and environments as well. [2] Within this title, the music can be considered as the Ambassador of the Foreign Legion and the entire French Armed ...