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La petite mort (French pronunciation: [la pətit mɔʁ]; lit. ' the little death ') is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death. [1] The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting ...
A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus.The absurdist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.
Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Tombeau sur la mort de M. Cajetan Baron d'Hartig, Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Losy; Jacques de Saint-Luc: Tombeau sur la mort de Mr Francois Ginter; Roman Turovsky-Savchuk: Tombeau sur la mort de Omelyan Kovch, Tombeau sur la mort de Petro Kalnyshevsky; François Campion [fr; de; pl]: Tombeau de Mr. de Maltot
Mort pour la France (French pronunciation: [mɔʁ puʁ la fʁɑ̃s], lit. ' died for France ' ) is a legal expression in France and an honour awarded to people who died during a conflict, usually in service of the country.
At 8:30 am, the troops presented their arms. The Minister of War, Louis Barthou, bowed before the coffin and delivered a statement: Au nom de la France pieusement reconnaissante et unanime, je salue le Soldat inconnu qui est mort pour elle ("In the name of France piously grateful and unanimous, I salute the Unknown Soldier who died for her"). [16]
La Mort le Roi Artu (c. 1225), an Old French prose romance, part of the Lancelot-Grail cycle. The alliterative Morte Arthure (c. 1400), a Middle English poem.
Alboury Ndiaye was born in about 1848, the same year that bergel (minister) Makura Niang, who had been ruling Jolof from behind the scenes for decades, died, leaving a chaotic power vacuum that lasted into the 1870s. [2]
La mort d'Adam (French pronunciation: [la mɔʁ dadɑ̃], lit. ' The Death of Adam ' ) is a tragédie lyrique on a biblical theme in 3 acts by Jean-François Le Sueur with a French libretto by Nicolas-François Guillard after Klopstock , first performed in 1809, though written a few years earlier. [ 1 ]