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The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus . Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language .
Italian "solfeggio" and English/French "solfège" derive from the names of two of the syllables used: sol and fa.[2] [3]The generic term "solmization", referring to any system of denoting pitches of a musical scale by syllables, including those used in India and Japan as well as solfège, comes from French solmisation, from the Latin solfège syllables sol and mi.
French sol, or sou; Argentine sol; Bolivian sol, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864; Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991; Peruvian sol (1863–1985)
The Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL, "Legionary Order Service") was a collaborationist militia created by Joseph Darnand, a far right veteran from the First World War. It was granted its independence in January 1943, after Operation Torch and the German occupation of the South Zone , until then dubbed "Free Zone" and controlled by Vichy.
French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
Comas i Solà is also credited with the discovery of the double star SOL 1. [7] In 1905, Solà received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society.
Solresol (Solfège: Sol-Re-Sol), originally called Langue universelle and then Langue musicale universelle, is a musical constructed language devised by François Sudre, beginning in 1817. His major book on it, Langue Musicale Universelle , was published after his death in 1866, [ 1 ] though he had already been publicizing it for some years.
Each episode would begin with Favreau appearing as himself, speaking in English, and introducing several Quebec French words and phrases. This was followed by a fragment of a comedy sketch involving Sol, in which all of the dialogue was in French, using the terms introduced by Favreau.