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Note the alliterations in [s], expression of a sigh, in the line Je pense à mon grand cygne , avec ses gestes fous (I think of my great swan with its mad gestures), and in [i] in the lines Comme les exilés, ridicule et sublime / Et rongé d’un désir sans trêve ! (Like exiles , ridiculous and sublime / And gnawed by incessant desire). The ...
Les Fleurs du mal (French pronunciation: [le flœʁ dy mal]; English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867.
tableau vivant (pl. tableaux vivants, often shortened as tableau) in drama, a scene where actors remain motionless as if in a picture. Tableau means painting, tableau vivant, living painting. In French, it is an expression used in body painting. touché acknowledgment of an effective counterpoint.
Jean-François Chevrier was the first to use the term tableau in relation to a form of art photography, which began in the 1970s and 1980s in an essay titled "The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography" in 1989. [8] The initial translation of this text substitutes the English word picture for the French word tableau.
Tableaux de Provence ("Pictures of Provence") is a programmatic suite composed by Paule Maurice (Sept. 29, 1910 – August 18, 1967) between 1948 and 1955 for alto saxophone and orchestra, most often performed with piano accompaniment only.
Le Cid is an opera in four acts and ten tableaux by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery, Louis Gallet and Édouard Blau.It is based on the play of the same name by Pierre Corneille.
Vivre sa vie (French: Vivre sa vie : film en douze tableaux, lit. 'To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes') is a 1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film was released in the United States as My Life to Live and in the United Kingdom as It's My Life.
Les Alyscamps (or 'L'Allée des Alyscamps') is a pair of paintings ("pendants") by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1888 in Arles , France, it depicts autumnal scenes in the Alyscamps , an ancient Roman necropolis in Arles which is lined with poplars and stone sarcophagi.