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    L'Africaine (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer...
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    Africaine (Q196) ("African") was an Aurore-class submarine of the French Navy. Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans in June 1940 during World...
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    retired. He was working on the libretto for Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, when he died suddenly of a stroke on 20 February 1861, in his carriage...
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    or Wood is of any use, that I can learn. In Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine (1865), the heroine Sélika dies by inhaling the perfume of the manchineel...
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    where they heard, and did not warm to, Giacomo Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, and Richard Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser. The opera's premiere in...
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    operas Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849); his last opera (L'Africaine) was performed posthumously. His operas made him the most frequently...
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    Sélika is the name of an enslaved Hindu princess who is the heroine of L'Africaine, an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer that was unfinished at the time of his...
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    a 20th-century perspective. Adamastor is also mentioned in the opera L'Africaine (1865) about Vasco da Gama by the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The slave...
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    Africaine was one of two 40-gun Preneuse-class frigates of the French Navy built to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran. She carried twenty-eight 18-pounder...
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  • Ejakulation dank afrikanischer Liebeskunst (2005) and Le secret de l’amour à l’africaine (2008) by traditional medicine specialist Nsekuye Bizimana, a Rwandan...
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