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Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a 100-line verse- poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [ 1 ] It is considered a masterpiece of French Symbolism.
A Bateau Mouche on the Seine near Pont Neuf Bateau Mouche seats. Bateaux Mouches (French pronunciation: [bato muʃ]) are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the city from along the river Seine. [1] They also operate on Parisian canals such as Canal Saint-Martin, which is partially subterranean.
1953. Type. Paper-cut. Dimensions. 13.84 cm × 10.33 cm (5.4 in × 4.1 in) Location. New York, Museum of Modern Art. The Boat (French: Le Bateau) is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life.
La Mer (song) "Seul... Depuis Toujours". " La Mer " ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French singer Roland Gerbeau in 1945. When Trenet's version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever ...
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
Words similar in form and meaning to xebec occur in Catalan, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. The Online Etymology Dictionary regards the Arabic shabbak (meaning "a small warship ") as the source form; however, the Arabic root means 'a net', implying the word originally referred to a fishing boat.
The Diccionario de la lengua española[a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the ...
Barque. A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.