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Length. 3:22. Label. Pathé. " La Complainte de la Butte " (English: "The Lament of the Mound") is a French love song, written by Jean Renoir, set to music by Georges van Parys, [1] [2] and originally performed by Cora Vaucaire as a single and as part of the soundtrack for the 1955 film French Cancan written and directed by Jean Renoir .
List of French loanwords in Persian. A great number of words of French origin have entered the Persian language since the early modern period. The following is a partial list of these loanwords: a contraction of the French word cosmétique, used to refer to lipstick in Persian. "open" (door, window, book, etc.), or "a big spender".
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1] à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu". In America "à la Carte Menu" can be found, an oxymoron and a pleonasm. à propos
History of Louisiana. Human habitation in the Baton Rouge area has been dated to about 8000 BC based on evidence found along the Mississippi, Comite, and Amite rivers. [ 1] Earthwork mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, from roughly the 4th millennium BC. [ 2]
179–511 m (587–1,677 ft) (avg. 348 m or 1,142 ft) 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Châteauneuf-le-Rouge ( French: [ʃɑtonœf lə ʁuʒ]; Occitan: Castèunòu lo Roge) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France .
The sheriff in a Georgia county where prison conditions have led to a federal civil rights investigation criticized a decision not to move forward with plans for a new jail, calling the vote ...
Goutte d'Or Sports Centre. The Goutte d'Or ( French pronunciation: [ɡut dɔʁ], lit. 'Drop of Gold') is a neighbourhood in Paris, located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris . The neighbourhood has large numbers of North African and sub-Saharan residents. It is known for its open-air market, le marché Dejean, which sells good of African origin.
Louisiana Creole is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana. [ 4] Also known as Kouri-Vini, [ 1] it is spoken today by people who may racially identify as white, black ...