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    The viol (/ˈvaɪəl/), viola da gamba (Italian: [ˈvjɔːla da (ɡ)ˈɡamba]), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments...
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    Viols-en-Laval (French pronunciation: [vjɔl(s) ɑ̃ laval]; Occitan: Viòus en la Val) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in...
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  • étudiante à Nice: le masseur écroué," France Info, 6 December 2017 "A Nice, les atermoiements de l’UNEF sur une affaire de viol présumé," Le Monde, 16 December...
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  • Nicolas Métru (category French Baroque viol players)
    1610 in Bar-sur-Aube – 1668 in Paris) was a French organist, viol player, and composer of pieces for viol and airs. From 1642 he was organist at St. Nicolas-des-Champs...
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  • Le Sieur de Machy (category French Baroque viol players)
    (fl. 1655–1700) was a French viol player, composer, and teacher remembered principally for his Pièces de Violle en Musique et en Tablature (1685), a valuable...
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  • Tous les Matins du Monde (category Films set in France)
    central character, Marin Marais, was a French composer during the late-17th and early-18th centuries who wrote for the viol (viola da gamba), of which he was...
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    Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (category French Baroque viol players)
    1670 in France – 18 October 1759 in France) was a composer of chamber music. Caix d'Hervelois wrote music almost exclusively for the viol. Most of his...
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    Marin Marais (category French Baroque viol players)
    Marin Marais (French: [maʁɛ̃ maʁɛ]; 31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with...
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    du 23 décembre 1980 RELATIVE A LA REPRESSION DU VIOL ET DE CERTAINS ATTENTATS AUX MOEURS" (in French). Legifrance. Retrieved 21 November 2013. [1] "Filiation...
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    Jordi Savall (category Viol players)
    viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family...
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