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Trenet published his recording in the U.S. in 1947, and Bing Crosby recorded "La Mer" on his 1953 album Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris. Matthew Bourne's 1989 ballet suite Infernal Galop, "a French dance with English subtitles", is choreographed to Charles Trenet's recording of "La Mer", in which a merman seduces three matelots. [8]
Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother" or "Shri Maa"
"La Mer" is Trenet's best-known work outside the French-speaking world, with more than 400 recorded versions. The tune, given unrelated English words and the title "Beyond the Sea" (or sometimes "Sailing"), was a hit for Bobby Darin in the early 1960s, and George Benson in the mid-1980s.
English: French Guiana, island of la Mère, site close to the wharf. Français : Guyane, îlet la Mère : clairière près du quai d'embarquement. Date:
Bonne mère (French: Good Mother), a 2008 short film by Damon D'Oliveira; Bonne Mère (French: Good Mother), a 1926 artwork by Ary Bitter; La Bonne Mère, contenant de petites pièces dramatiques, a 1786 book by Jean Baptiste Perrin (fl. 1786) La Bonne Mère (French: The Good Mother), a 1867 sculpture of the Virgin and Child by Eugène-Louis ...
In 1923, [1] Îlet la Mère was rented from the French Government [5] by the wife of Duez, [1] a former prisoner. She built a farm with her husband. The island was used for animal husbandry and producing fruit. A workforce of about 20 prisoners was employed to work the land. [5] The farm closed in 1933. [1] Squirrel monkeys on Îlet la Mère
Title page of the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy of the first published edition of the play, 1793. The Guilty Mother (French: La Mère coupable), subtitled The Other Tartuffe, is a drame moral, the third play of the Figaro trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais; its predecessors were The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. [1]
Mother Anthony's Tavern (French: Le cabaret de la Mère Antony à Bourron-Marlotte), also known as At the Inn of Mother Anthony, is an 1866 oil-on-canvas painting made by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir during his Fontainebleau period. [1] It is one of Renoir's first major paintings, having completed it at the age of 25.