• "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's...
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  • 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944. 1944 (MCMXLIV)...
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  • "Davenson (Henri). — Le livre des Chansons, ou Introduction à la connaissance de la chanson populaire française, 1944". Le Monde alpin et rhodanien. Revue...
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    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...
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    its spiritual successor Super Uho festival. Šibenik hosts the Dalmatian Chanson Evenings festival (Večeri Dalmatinske Šansone), held in the second half...
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    Yvette Guilbert (category 1944 deaths)
    playwright and songwriter Maurice Lefèvre said of her Let's enter the Chanson Moderne. There she is! Long leech, sexless! She crawls, creeps with hissings...
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  • and piano - text: Auguste Marin 1944 Chanson archaïque for middle voice and piano or harp - text: Maurice Maeterlinck 1944 Dévotions for soprano and piano...
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    Piaf in 1944 in a benefit concert for railway workers in Paris, and Piaf decided to help promote the group. They became Les Compagnons de la chanson in 1946...
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    Himmler. The BBC broadcast a coded message based on the Paul Verlaine poem Chanson d'automne to inform the French Resistance that the invasion of France was...
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    Françoise Hardy (category 1944 births)
    French pop and fashion. In 2006, she was awarded the Grande médaille de la chanson française honorary award given by the Académie française, in recognition...
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  • The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...
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  • 1943 La Valse de Paris 1943 Chanson d'amour 1944 Les deux rengaines 1944 Y'a pas d'printemps 1944 Les Histoires de coeur 1944 C'est toujours la même histoire...
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    Ibrica Jusić (category 1944 births)
    Ibrahim "Ibrica" Jusić[pronunciation?] (born 15 December 1944) is Croatian chanson, folk, pop and sevdalinka singer-songwriter and musician. Ibrica Jusić...
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    The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French Chanson de Roland of the 11th century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance...
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    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...
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  • December 1966. p. 10. "Les Compagnons De La Chanson – La chanson de Lara". Ultratop. "John William – La chanson de Lara". Ultratop. "Karel Gott - Schiwago...
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    Burt Blanca (category 1944 births)
    chanson en Wallonie et à Bruxelles Robert Wangermée - 1995 - - Page 81 2870096003 BLANCA, Burt/pseudonyme de Norbert Blancke(NederOverHeembeek, 1944)...
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    mélodies, such as the song cycles Cinq mélodies "de Venise" and La bonne chanson, which were settings of Verlaine's poems. Claude Debussy set to music Clair...
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    (1941) "La chanson du maçon" (1941) "La Marche de Ménilmontant" (1942) "La symphonie des semelles en bois" (1942) "La fête a Neu-Neu" (1944) "Fleur de...
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  • cappella by Edith Piaf with the French vocal group Les Compagnons de la chanson using an arrangement by group member Marc Herrand in July 1946. Piaf and...
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    Wassily Kandinsky (category 1944 deaths)
    Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited...
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    often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were...
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    and most prominent members of the Seventies "Nouvelle chanson française" ("New French chanson"), alongside Alain Souchon, Bernard Lavilliers, Jacques...
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    and the mid-1970s. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, including "Avec le temps", "C'est extra", "Jolie Môme" and...
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    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...
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    Goncourt for her novel Chanson douce. Slimani's maternal grandmother Anne Dhobb (née Ruetsch; 1921–2016) grew up in Alsace. In 1944, she met her future husband...
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    "Master of the chanson Charles Aznavour dead at 94". Deutsche Welle. 1 October 2018. Cords, Suzanne (21 May 2014). "The master of the chanson". Deutsche Welle...
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    Pistol Packin' Mama (category 1944 singles)
    track to his 1982 album. Québécois singer Oscar Morin recorded a French chanson "Dans le bon vieux temps" using the same tune in the 1950s. The Irving...
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    chansons de geste. For example, one finds the gods Bafum e Travagan in a Provençal poem on the life of St. Honorat, completed in 1300. In the Chanson...
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    (1959) Le roi heureux (1962) Félix Leclerc (1964) Mes premières chansons (1964) Moi mes chansons (1966) La vie (1967) L'héritage (1968) Mes Longs Voyages (1968)...
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