The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic...

sword's name to be "Ḏū l-jandal" meaning "master of stone". According to La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), the sword was brought by an angel to Charlemagne...

Orly is a chanson (song) in French by the Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. It was recorded on September 5, 1977 and released on Brel's last long-playing...

Ward Cliff Holland C. Mae Frierson Moore, 1925 Les Compagnons de la chanson (under the title Qu'il fait bon vivre) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Dixie Jubilee...

The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...

public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica...

Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941. Their best known...

French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and...

but later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson. Although he recorded most of his songs in French and occasionally in Flemish...

version was released in 1946, it became an unexpected hit and has remained a chanson classic and jazz standard ever since. Trenet said that he had written an...