"Les Six" (pronounced [le sis]) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The...
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Six-Fours-les-Plages (French pronunciation: [si fuʁ le plaʒ]; Occitan: Sièis Forns lei Plaias, Sièis Four in provençal) is a commune in the Var department...
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Jean Bodin (redirect from Les Six livres de la République)
based on the Theatrum. Bodin's best-known work was "The Six Books of the Republic" (Les Six livres de la République), written in 1576. The discussion...
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Blossom (TV series) (redirect from Six LeMeure)
his catchphrase "Whoa!" Blossom's best friend Six LeMeure also plays a significant part in her life. Six, an especially fast talker, is known for her tendency...
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Les Double Six (also known as the Double Six of Paris) was a French vocal jazz group established in 1959 by Mimi Perrin. The group established an international...
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6 (redirect from Six (number))
often been underlined, both in handwriting and on printed labels. Les Six ("The Six" in English) was a group consisting of the French composers Georges...
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Maurice Ravel (section Les Apaches and Debussy)
viewed by the new generation of composers typified by Satie's protégés Les Six as an establishment figure. Satie had turned against him, and commented...
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patron Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (Six Voyages, 1676). Tavernier is best known for his 1666...
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Jean Cocteau (category Les Six)
(1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946); and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents...
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Francis Poulenc (category Les Six)
tutelage he became one of a group of young composers known collectively as Les Six. In his early works Poulenc became known for his high spirits and irreverence...
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