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    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 poem...
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  • Roi de Féérie Chanson d'Esclarmonde Chanson de Clarisse et Florent Chanson d'Yde et d'Olive Chanson de Godin – the Turin manuscript of the romance contains...
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    The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux...
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    The Chanson d'Antioche is a chanson de geste in 9000 lines of Alexandrin in stanzas called laisses, now known in a version composed about 1180 for a courtly...
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  • "C'est chouette Paris" by Anthony Perkins "C'est la chanson de Paris" by Lucienne Delyle "C'est magnifique" by Santa Esmeralda "C'est Paris" by Maurice Chevalier...
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    the chanson de geste and other kinds of epic, in which masculine military heroism predominates." Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but...
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    version in Alexandrines was the source for a romance in prose by Jehan Wauquelin in 1447 (Paris: éd. L. de Montille, 1880). Southern French traditions...
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    Édith Piaf (redirect from La môme Piaf)
    and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non...
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  • Chanson d'Aspremont (or simply Aspremont, or Agolant) is a 12th-century Old French chanson de geste (before 1190). The poem comprises 11, 376 verses (unusually...
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  • (1950), "Les noms d'épées dans la Chanson de Roland", Mélanges de linguistique et de littérature Romances, offerts à Mario Roques, Paris, pp. 149–66...
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