Sentences with phrase «chanson de»

Before the invention of the novel, verse provided the vehicle for throwing philosophical and theological truths into their enacted, experienced forms, which is why I've profited so much from medieval and Renaissance poems, especially those I've recommended, all of which are allied with the chanson de geste, tales of heroism and adventure that delight as much as they inform.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

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Chansons d'la Mer is a three bedroom, three bath villa located in the very private, very quiet, and very beautiful area known as Domaine de Mont Jean.

César Daly, editor of the Revue générale de l'architecture, used a similar military term, éclaireur, or «scout,» in the 1840s, when he said that the journal must «fulfill an active mission of «scouting the path of the future,»» a mission both socially and artistically advanced.3 Baudelaire, after a brief flirtation with radical politics in 1848 — he had actually fought on the barricades and shortly after, in 1851, had written a eulogistic introduction to the collected Chants et chansons of the left - wing worker - poet Pierre Dupont, condemning the «puerile utopia of the art - for - art's sake school,» praising the «popular convictions» and «love of humanity» expressed in the poet's pastoral, political, and socialistic songs4 — later mocked the politico - military implications of the term «avant - garde» in Mon Coeur mis à nu, written in 1862 — 64.5