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The title of Ceci n'est pas un conte, followed by Second conte (whose name completely contradicts the first title), betrays Diderot's game of denotation played against connotation. He plays with perceptions of reality and appearances, truth and falsity, as well as good, bad and the relativity of these notions.
"A Simple Heart", or Un cœur simple in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'Évèque, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant.
The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe, [2] Ceci n'est pas une pipe [2] and The Wind and the Song. [3] It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [1] The painting shows an image of a pipe.
C'est pas sorcier (literally It's Not Sorcery, French for "it's not rocket science") was a popular French live-action, science education television program that originally aired from September 19, 1993, to February 1, 2014. In total, 559 episodes were produced.
The body without organs (or BwO; French: corps sans organes or CsO) [1] is a fuzzy concept used in the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The concept describes the unregulated potential of a body—not necessarily human [2] — without organizational structures imposed on its constituent parts, operating freely.
Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas "Ne me quitte pas" is considered by some as "Brel's ultimate classic". [1] It was written after Brel's mistress "Zizou" (Suzanne Gabriello) threw him out of her life. [2] Zizou was pregnant with Brel's child, but Brel refused to acknowledge the child as his own.
The story was retold by John Hurt as an episode in Jim Henson's The Storyteller.It takes on a sadder tone, as the prince befriends the giant after freeing him from years of captivity in his father's castle, and after journeying to the mountain to get the egg and eventually releasing his brothers, beseeches them not to break the egg containing the giant's heart, as he promises now to be good.
Les corps glorieux, Sept visions brèves de la Vie des ressuscités (French: The Bodies Glorious, Seven Brief Visions of the Life of the Resurrected) are a large cycle for organ composed in the summer of 1939 [1] [2] in Saint-Théoffrey by Olivier Messiaen.