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  2. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    The sound /h/ was lost but later reintroduced into individual Romance languages. The so-called h aspiré "aspirated h" in French, now completely silent, was a borrowing from Frankish. In Spanish, word-initial /f/ changed to /h/ during its Medieval stage and was lost afterwards (for example farina > harina). [79]

  3. French language - Wikipedia

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    French (français ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern

  4. Romance (love) - Wikipedia

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    Love was a central topic again in the subsequent movement of Romanticism, which focused on such things as absorption in nature and the absolute, as well as platonic and unrequited love in German philosophy and literature. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze linked this concept of love as a lack mainly to Sigmund Freud, and Deleuze often ...

  5. History of French - Wikipedia

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    French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.. The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected the languages, and "internal history", describing the ...

  6. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    For example, Portuguese amei "I loved" is composed of am-"love" and the fusional suffix -ei "first-person singular preterite indicative". Romance languages have a primarily subject–verb–object word order, with varying degrees of flexibility from one language to another. Constructions are predominantly of the head-first (right-branching) type.

  7. Romanticism in France - Wikipedia

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    Anne Louis Girodet was one of the first important painters in French romanticism. A pupil of Jacques Louis David. His work was greatly admired by Napoleon; he painted The Shadows of French Heroes who died in the wars of Liberty, received by Ossian (1802) especially for the main salon of Napoleon's home at Malmaison. It featured the mysterious ...

  8. Name of France - Wikipedia

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    Romanisation: Francia: Language(s) French: Origin; Language(s) Developed from the settlement of Romanized Franks in Île-de-France.: Word/name: Due to the influence of Paris as capital of France, its Romance language gradually spread over the whole country as a standard language, especially after the French Revolution.

  9. Heart symbol - Wikipedia

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    The first known depiction of a heart as a symbol of romantic love dates to the 1250s. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital 'S' in a manuscript of the French Roman de la poire. [11] In the miniature, a kneeling lover (or more precisely, an allegory of the lover's "sweet gaze" or doux regard) offers his heart to a damsel. The heart here ...