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Updated: June 16, 2025
And it was the same with Hugo; the oriental and patriarchal side was too conventional and barren to detain him. And his manners, at once childish and that of a grandfather, exasperated him. He had to go to the Chansons des rues et des bois to enjoy the perfect acrobatics of his metrics.
I motored to many parts of the front, and my companion sometimes was a little Frenchman who had lost a leg in the war D'Artagnan with a wooden peg, most valiant, most gay. Along the way he recited the poems of Ronsard. At the journey's end one day he sang old French chansons, in an English mess, within gunshot of the German lines.
This great work bleak, bare, gaunt, majestic stands out, to the readers of to-day, like some huge mass of ancient granite on the far horizon of the literature of France. While the Chansons de Geste were developing in numerous cycles of varying merit, another group of narrative poems, created under different influences, came into being.
His advice was relished, and they invited their cousin, named Elias, a comic poet, to travel with them. Now Guy, the youngest of the brothers, and Ebles the eldest, had a pretty gift at poetry, and the second brother, Pierre, had a pleasant pipe, so they agreed that Ebles should write sirventes, and Guy chansons, and that Pierre should sing them.
When and why the name of the Duke of Marlborough was substituted for that of the Duc de Guise has never been ascertained. See "Chansons Populaires," par Charles Nisard: Paris, Dentu, 1867. Tr. The day on which Theodore de Beze and Chaudieu arrived in Paris, the court returned from Rheims, where Charles IX. was crowned.
But Verdi is luscious." "Yes, Verdi. I quite agree with your assessment. And Mozart, of course, is beyond reproach." "Positively. But I generally prefer the intimacy of lieder myself." "German?" She laughed and pointed her fork at him. "Not only German chansons as well." "I'm relieved to hear it." Professor Bridwell then put one hand into his pocket, and withdrew his silver cigarette case.
"I drink to Madelinette, daughter of that fine old puffing forgeron Lajeunesse," he added, as the big blacksmith now entered the room. Lajeunesse grinned and ducked his head. "I knew Madelinette, as did you all, when I could take her on my knee and tell her English stories, and listen to her sing French chansons the best in the world. She has gone on; we stay where we were.
These old hymns were written in Chinook, that strange language, French, English, Spanish, Indian, arranged by the Hudson's Bay Company, which is, like the wampum-belt, a common tongue for tribes and peoples not speaking any language but their own. They were set to old airs lullabies, chansons, barcarolles, serenades, taken out of the folk-lore of many lands.
Many of them lacked seriousness, dealing mainly with delicate fancies and trivial incidents, but pleasures of the intellect and taste became the fashion. Burlesques and chansons disputed the palm with madrigals and sonnets. A neatly turned epigram or a clever letter made a social success. Perhaps it was not a school for genius of the first order.
This gallery, much simpler than the buildings surrounding it, is also rich in sculpture and still richer in associations with the poet-prince, who is said to have solaced the weary hours of his imprisonment by writing verses, chansons, rondeaux, and ballades, some of which were doubtless composed in this gallery after his return from exile.
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