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Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir; Ah! vous dirai-je, maman; Allons enfants de la Patrie; Alouette, gentille alouette, alouette, je te plumerai; L'amour est un oiseau rebelle; Ancien régime; Après moi, le déluge; Aux armes, citoyens!
Sheila Fischman's translation of La Guerre, yes Sir! (published under that title in French and English and meaning roughly "War, you bet!"), by Roch Carrier, leaves many sacres in the original Quebec French, since they have no real equivalent in English. She gives a brief explanation and history of these terms in her introduction, including a ...
The equivalent of the English portmanteau word is un mot-valise (lit. "word-suitcase"). potpourri medley, mixture; French write it pot-pourri, literally 'rotten pot': primarily a pot in which different kinds of flowers or spices are put to dry for years for the scent. précis a concise summary.
This can help disambiguate between word uses: un précieux insolent /œ̃ pʁe.sjø ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃/ (pronounced without liaison) could mean "an insolent member of the précieuses literary movement" (précieux can be a noun), but with liaison un précieux insolent /œ̃ pʁe.sjø.z‿ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃/ can only refer to a precious insolent person ...
"Alouette" has become a symbol of French Canada for the world, an unofficial national song. [3] Today, the song is used to teach French and English-speaking children in Canada, and others learning French around the world, the names of body parts. Singers will point to or touch the part of their body that corresponds to the word being sung in ...
The author of the original words "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira" was a former soldier by the name of Ladré who made a living as a street singer.The music is a popular contredanse air called "Le carillon national", and was composed by Jean-Antoine Bécourt [], a violinist (according to other sources: side drum player) of the théâtre Beaujolais.
Anton Pann (Romanian pronunciation: [anˈton ˈpan]; born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu [anˈtoni.e pantoleˈon petroˈve̯anu], and also mentioned as Anton Pantoleon or Petrovici; 1790s—2 November 1854) was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher.
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