Sentence examples for in chanson from inspiring English sources

In "Chanson Douce," Slimani is pretty hard on Paul and Myriam.

The scene in "Chanson Douce" that haunts me isn't the obvious one.

Although he began in chanson, the Gallic cabaret tradition, Mr. Higelin's music evolved toward art-rock and world music while maintaining roots in American blues.

"Since the terrorist attacks, Myriam has forbidden her to let the children watch television," she writes, in typically oblique fashion, in "Chanson Douce".

In "Chanson Douce," in the passage about parks in winter, Slimani writes, "In strollers, babies held tight under straps contemplate their elder siblings.

"Not too old, no veils, no smokers," Paul Massé, a music producer, says to his wife, Myriam Charfa, a criminal-defense lawyer, as they begin their search, in "Chanson Douce".

They are normally in four parts (two are in five parts), in contrast to the three parts commonly used in chansons.

In 1787, the possibility of native retaliation against colonialism is expressed in "Chansons madécasses," thought to be the first French prose poem.

William's actions in Spain may have been the inspiration for the character of Ganelon in the Chanson de Roland, which was possibly written in the early twelfth-century, based on similar events that had occurred during the reign of Charlemagne centuries earlier.

As the critic Estelle Lenartowicz noted, in L'Express, "Chanson Douce" is a portrait of "a couple until now unexplored in literature: the one, complex and ambiguous, that comprises a mother and her babysitter".

Or Didion can insist melodramatically that the dead are forewarned, "like Gawain in the Chanson de Roland" (her italics).