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The full title in French is Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits: Dédié à LL. AA. RR. les princesses Louise et Marie d'Orléans (1827). A folio edition was printed with color pages in Paris in 1827. [2] From May 1827 to June 1833 144 special pages were printed with pictures.
These flowers were often the only visible evidence of life, and the only sign of color in the mud of the trenches. At the same time, the term "bleuets" was used also to refer to the class of conscripted soldiers born in 1897 who arrived in the lead-up to the Second Battle of the Aisne , because of the bleu horizon [ fr ] worn by French soldiers ...
lit. "beautiful gesture", a gracious gesture, noble in form but often futile or meaningless in substance. This French expression has been pressing at the door of standard English with only partial success, since the appearance of P. C. Wren's Beau Geste (1924), the first of his Foreign Legion novels. [3] Beau idéal
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
Fleur-de-lis is the stylized depiction of the lily flower. The name itself derives from ancient Greek λείριον > Latin lilium > French lis.. The lily has always been the symbol of fertility and purity, and in Christianity it symbolizes the Immaculate Conception.
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The Bunch of Flowers (1891) by Paul Gauguin. The Bunch of Flowers or Flowers of France (French: Le bouquet de fleurs [lə bukɛ d(ə) flœʁ]; Tahitian: Te tiare farani) [needs IPA] is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Gauguin, from 1891. It is held in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It was one of the first in his series of Tahitian works.
A blue flower (German: Blaue Blume) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. [1] It stands for desire , love , and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable.