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"Rrose Sélavy", also spelled Rose Sélavy, was one of Duchamp's pseudonyms. The name, a pun, sounds like the French phrase Eros, c'est la vie, which may be translated as "Eros, such is life." It has also been read as arroser la vie ("to make a toast to life"). Sélavy emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Man Ray showing Duchamp ...
You Never Can Tell (song) " You Never Can Tell ", also known as " C'est La Vie " or " Teenage Wedding ", is a song written by Chuck Berry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the Mann Act. [2] Released in 1964 on the album St. Louis to Liverpool and the follow-up single to Berry's final Top Ten hit ...
lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.
Parlophone / WEA (since 2013) Musical artist. Édith Piaf's voice. From the song " Hymne à l'amour ". Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963), known as Édith Piaf (French pronunciation: [edit pjaf]), was a French entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.
C'est la vie (radio), a Canadian radio program. C'est la Vie, a 1967 musical review airing as an episode of ABC Stage 67. C'est la Vie, a 1981 French film directed by Paul Vecchiali. La Baule-les-Pins, English title: C'est la vie (1990 film) C'est la Vie, a 2001 French film starring Sandrine Bonnaire. C'est la vie, TV series Mauritius 2003 ...
Charles Dumont. Lyricist (s) Michel Vaucaire. " Non, je ne regrette rien " (pronounced [nɔ̃ ʒə nə ʁəɡʁɛt ʁjɛ̃]; transl. "No, I do not regret anything") is a French song composed in 1956 by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire. Édith Piaf 's 1960 recording spent seven weeks atop the French Singles & Airplay Reviews chart. [1]
The historical manga Barefoot Gen shows many of the citizens in Hiroshima using the phrase "Shikata ga nai" to explain why they accept the military rule, and the acceptance of the below-poverty conditions that cause many of their citizens to starve. Similarly, John Hersey 's Hiroshima applies the phrase after efforts to assist fatally injured ...
Marcel Duchamp, 1919, L.H.O.O.Q., published in 391, n. 12, March 1920. L.H.O.O.Q. (French pronunciation: [ɛl aʃ o o ky]) is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made. [2] The readymade involves taking mundane, often ...