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  2. Chevrefoil - Wikipedia

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    Like other lais, prominence is given to the analysis of the characters' emotions and to the contrast between the ideals of love and the needs of reality. [7] It has been speculated [by whom?] that Marie arranged her poems as they appear in MS H in order to pair a short, tragic poem with a longer one on the power of love and the importance of ...

  3. Le Ton beau de Marot - Wikipedia

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    A French speaker hearing the title spoken ([lə tɔ̃ bo də ma.ʁo]) would be more likely to interpret it as le tombeau de Marot; where tombeau may mean ‘tomb’ (as per the cover picture), but also tombeau, ‘a work of art (literature or music) done in memory and homage to a deceased person’ (the title is intended to parallel the title ...

  4. Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux - Wikipedia

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    Plaque commemorating the site where the poem was written. Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux (transl. There Is no Happy Love) is a poem written by Louis Aragon in January 1943, and published in La Diane Française in 1944. The poem reflects on the inherent contradiction between love and the pain that it inevitably brings to those who experience it.

  5. French poetry - Wikipedia

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    The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...

  6. Plaisir d'amour - Wikipedia

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    " Plaisir d'amour" ([plɛ.ziʁ da.muʁ], "Pleasure of love") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine. The song was greatly successful in Martini's version.

  7. Lais of Marie de France - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The short, narrative poems generally focus on glorifying the concept of courtly love by the adventures of their main characters. [3] Marie's lais are thought to form the basis for what would eventually become the genre known as the Breton lais. [4]

  8. La Belle Dame sans Mercy - Wikipedia

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    The poem is written in a series of octaves (huitains in the French) each line of which contains eight syllables (octosyllabes), which is also the style of the poet François Villon in the "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" written later in the 15th century. In the debate between the Lover and the Lady, the alternating octaves delineate their ...

  9. Roman de la Rose - Wikipedia

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    Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision.As poetry, The Romance of the Rose is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to provide a "mirror of love" in which the whole art of romantic love is disclosed.