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Canso or canson were songs concerning courtly love. Sirventes songs covered war, politics, morality, satire, humor, and topics outside of love. Tenso and Partiment is a dialog or debate between poets; Planh is a lament on a death. Pastorela is a song trying to win the affections and love of a shepherdess. Alba is complaint of lovers upon parting.
Their obituary appeared in the Bulletin of Volcanology. [1] Since their deaths, their work has been featured in two documentary films by Werner Herzog , Into the Inferno (2016) and The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022), and a further film, Fire of Love (2022), depicted their lives, relationship and careers using their ...
" Plaisir d'amour" ([plɛ.ziʁ da.muʁ], "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine. The song was greatly successful in Martini's version.
The Wall of Love (French: Le mur des je t'aime, lit. the I Love You Wall) is a love-themed wall of 40 square metres (430 sq ft) in the Jehan Rictus garden square in Montmartre, Paris, France. The wall was created in 2000 by artists Fédéric Baron and Claire Kito [ 1 ] and is composed of 612 tiles of enamelled lava , on which the phrase 'I love ...
The present site of Paris was selected by five commissioners appointed to the task of choosing a county seat at the December 1822 session of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Henry County. Their choice was a 50-acre (20 ha) site, of which 37.5 acres (15.2 ha) were owned by Joseph Blythe and 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) owned by Peter Ruff; both ...
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The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
An English translation was written by Bruce Sievier (1894, Paris – 1953) and is known as "Speak to Me of Love" or "Tell Me About Love". It was also recorded by Dalida in 1961, and it features her 1961 album, Garde-moi la dernière danse. Caterina Valente recorded it in 1960, but she sang it with a very special timbre.