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    Alexander Romance, once described as "antiquity's most successful novel", is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. The Romance describes...
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    Council, v. 10, (1978), pp. 33–52 Charles de Lusse (1774). Recueil de romances historiques, tendres et burlesques, tant anciennes que modernes, avec les airs...
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  • [1889]. Précis historique de phonétique française (5th ed.). Paris: Klincksieck. Boyd-Bowman, Peter (1980) [1954]. From Latin to Romance in sound charts...
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  • mid-14th century. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse. These dialects came to be...
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    works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie...
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    The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse; abbr. DHS) is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland. It aims to...
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  • (străromână), or Proto-Romanian (protoromână), is a comparatively reconstructed Romance language evolved from Vulgar Latin and spoken by the ancestors of today's...
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    Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language...
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    The Théâtre Historique, a former Parisian theatre located on the boulevard du Temple, was built in 1846 for the French novelist and dramatist Alexandre...
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    by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as...
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    Occitans (category Romance peoples)
    The Occitans (Occitan: occitans) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group originating in the historical region of Occitania (southern France, northeastern...
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  • Proto-Western Romance [mejˈtate] < Latin medietātem). Laborderie (1994), p. 37 Zink (1986), p. 108, 115–117 Bourciez & Bourciez (1967), §41 Historique, p. 62...
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    Western Europe's geopolitical landscape. Louis the German swore his oath in Romance so that the soldiers of Charles the Bald could understand him. Likewise...
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    Hispanism (category Romance studies)
    translating and publishing a collection of romances and a history of King Rodrigo in 1821, and Romances historiques traduits de l'espagnol in 1822. He also...
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    life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas père, most famously including The Three Musketeers (1844)...
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    l'enfance et les plaisirs de l'amour maternel, (Paris, Eymery) 1795: Romances historiques 1802: Œuvres de Berquin 1803: Œuvres posthumes by Florian 1804: Le...
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    11 March 2023. INSEE. "Statistiques locales – Population municipale (historique depuis 1876)". Retrieved 10 February 2023. "Individus localisés à la région...
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    see Alfred-Louis de Prémare, Foundations of Islam, Seuil, L'Univers Historique, 2002. Some Arabic borrowings from Semitic or Persian languages are, as...
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    and Île-de-France were outnumbered by the local populace who spoke Proto-Romance dialects. However, many modern French words and place names, including...
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    Lille and the Arrondissement of Douai. Romance Flanders Bavelier, Adrien Auteur du texte (1874). Essai historique sur le droit d'élection et sur les anciennes...
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    Romanians (category Romance peoples)
    Romanians (Romanian: români, pronounced [roˈmɨnʲ]; dated exonym Vlachs) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central, Eastern and Southeastern...
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    English Etymology (OUP 1966), p. 391. Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique et historique (Larousse 1990), p. 336. Koch 2006, p. 532. Koch 2006, pp. 775–776. Gael...
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    services along the route from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that persisted until the eighth century...
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    French). Retrieved 13 January 2022. "Le SPLAF - Historique du Nord". splaf.free.fr. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE "Christian Poiret, élu président...
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    François Just Marie Raynouard (category Romance philologists)
    Histoire du XVIe arrondissement de Paris, Éditions Hachette, 1902. "Historique – Lycée Raynouard" (in French). Lycée Raynouard. 2012. Retrieved 27 June...
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    Tirant lo Blanch (category Romance (genre))
    Recherches Historiques (in French). 16: 1–14. doi:10.4000/ccrh.2652. Among the Catalan literature of the late Middle Ages, the chivalric romance entitled...
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    Eastern Orthodox Christians, speaking Romanian, a Romance language (more specifically Eastern Romance). Romania is a member of the United Nations, the...
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  • Latin obscenity (category Articles with text in Romance languages)
    reflexes in Romance. The French slang word pédé ("male homosexual") is an abbreviated form of pédéraste, according to the Dictionnaire historique de la langue...
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  • people living in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe speaking a Romance language. During the transition from Vulgar Latin to Romanian, there were...
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    Château de Montségur (category Monuments historiques of Ariège (department))
    castles," is actually of a later period. It has been listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1862. The ruins of Montségur are...
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