Search results for "Old French" - New World Encyclopedia
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- were written in a form of continental French that was copied by Anglo ... #039;s lais, and in several anonymous Old French lais of the thirteenth ...12 KB (1,973 words) - 04:15, 6 November 2022
- colonial masters change rapidly, bringing French, Spanish and British music ... descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours. ...5 KB (727 words) - 18:39, 25 November 2023
- movement which combined elements of the French opera comique and the Italian ... the incumbent was Spanish and his wife was French. Parma had regularly changed ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- Jean René Lacoste (July 2, 1904 - October 12, 1996) was a famous ... won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships ...8 KB (1,243 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Built between the Old Town in the north and the New Town in the south ... the town, the area which is now known as the Old Town (Ville-Vieille). It was ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- and completed in 1768, by the renowned French architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel ... #039;s excesses as a cause of the French Revolution, there can be ...10 KB (1,468 words) - 01:37, 24 November 2022
- François Villon (ca. 1431 - ca. 1474) was a French poet, thief, and ... highly educated, and his mastery of the French language led to a number ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- adjectives. (English adjectives include big, old, and tired, among many others ... occur in phrases like "out with the old, in with the new," where ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 06:00, 15 June 2023
- and fully integrate, if they chose, into French society. Emancipation followed ... ranking Jewish artillery officer in the French army. He was charged with ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- military experience exposed Haider to French tactics and weapons and he ... useful familiarity with the tactics of the French when they were at the height ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- and the path of a virtuoso. From 25 years old, he spent his life teaching ... familiar with the work of the famous French organ builder Aristide Cavaillé ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- (Les) Cahiers du cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is an influential French ... français" ("a certain trend in French cinema")—arguably ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French ... The biography of Necker is part of the history of the French Revolution ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 23:39, 4 July 2022
- of typology, whereby the events of the Old Testament prefigured, or foretold ... event is compared with three from the Old Testament, with four pictures ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composer and music theorist ... wasn't until he was more than 40 years old that Rameau achieved prominence ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market ... , Cologne, and France. English wool, French wines and German beer were ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) was a French ... de 1662," he was elected to the French Academy. [http://oce.catholic ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 22:25, 4 December 2023
- language, preferring the easy style of French literature to the more dense ... of Orenburg on the 1st of December (old style) 1765. His father was ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 04:13, 15 November 2022
- the highest film honor in France, the French film industry's equivalent ... the Molière Award for achievement in live French theatre, founded the Academy ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- created in 196 B.C.E., discovered by the French in 1799, and translated in ... Ptolemy V began his rule when he was five years old, and thus much ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
