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Gaston Paris was born under the July Monarchy at Avenay (), the son of Paulin Paris (1800–1881), an important French scholar of medieval French literature.In his childhood, Gaston learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at the University of Bonn (1856), in the ...
"The Downfall of Paris" is a British traditional tune. [1] It dates back to the Napoleonic Wars , and became a popular marching song amongst British troops fighting in the Peninsular War . Its tune is partly a reworking of the French song " Ça Ira ". [ 2 ]
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871, is a 1965 history of the Paris Commune written by Alistair Horne and published by St. Martin's Press.. Horne paired rewritten chapters from The Fall of Paris with illustrations of the Commune for The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871, a coffee table book published by Viking Press for the Commune's centennial in 1971.
O French people, people of heroes, Freedom reopens its arms; We were told, "be slaves!" We said, "be soldiers!" Suddenly Paris in its memory Has found its cry of glory: Refrain: 𝄆 Forward, let's march Against the cannons; Across the iron, the fire of battalions, Let's hurry to victory. 𝄇 II Close thy ranks, let's support each other!
The Vikings arrived in Paris on Easter Sunday, 29 March, [8] entered the city and plundered it. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] During the siege, a plague broke out in their camp. The Norse had been exposed to the Christian religion , and after first praying to the Norse gods, they undertook a fast, acting on the advice of one of their Christian prisoners, and the ...
The historical events the chansons allude to occur in the 8th through 10th centuries, yet the earliest chansons that have survived were probably composed at the end of the 11th century: only three chansons de geste have a composition that incontestably dates from before 1150: the Chanson de Guillaume, The Song of Roland and Gormont et Isembart ...
A pirated, parodic play on the song was released under the title "Boney's Return to Paris" in 1815 following Napoleon's escape from Elba during the Hundred Days, before his defeat at Waterloo. [4] The original song continued to have relevance during the subsequent post-Waterloo Allied Occupation of France under the Duke of Wellington , as the ...
The song catered to a wartime nostalgia for songs about European cities following the Second World War Battle of France (which brought Paris under Nazi control), with "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" also proving popular. [2] The song had not been written for the film, and Hammerstein said the song was "not written to order".