Chanson Collection

Chanson De Printemps
Lovely illustration featuring a girl in a pink dress, holding a straw hat enjoying the warbles of a bird in a tree

Illustration, La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), Battle of Roncevaux (778). Charlemagne hears Rolands horn, calling for help, but they will arrive too late to save the hero. Date: 778

Le Rocher Bayard, Dinant, Wallonia, Namur, Belgium
Le Rocher Bayard (right), a 40m high rock needle associated with the Four Sons of Aymon legend, on the river Meuse in Dinant, Wallonia, Namur, Belgium

Music cover, Chez Marseille, words by Durand-Dahl, music by Felicien Vargues Date: 1895

Nibelungenlied. Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin
Nibelungenlied. Anonymous epic poem. 13th century. Scene depicting Kriemhild requiring the proof of the coffin. Engraving by A. Closs. Germania, 1882. Colored

Music cover, Chanson d Amour Waltz, by J P Clarke, Bandmaster of Her Majestys Scots Guards, played with great success at the International Health Exhibition (London, 1884). Date: late 19th century

AUBERT, David (15th c. ). Chroniques et conquestes
AUBERT, David (15th c.). Chroniques et conquestes de Charlemaine. 1458. Ms. 5089. Folio 167V. Battle of Charlemagne against the Saracen king Agolant and his son Helmont in Calabria

Yvonne Guilbert, one of the stars of Les Ambassadeurs, Paris Date: 1890s

Cartoon, The Song of Rosalie, WW1
Cartoon, The Song of Rosalie: In my fathers garden, the laurels are blossoming... A young woman (Rosalie, an allegorical female representing the French bayonet) stands in military costume

Cartoon, Epic song, WW1
Cartoon, Epic song. A pretty French woman sits at a table, with four British soldiers hovering nearby. She says its typically the soldier she likes the look of most who doesn t understand French

Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich, Leo
CABALLERO Y MUOZ CABALLERO, Jos (1916-1991); VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896). Title page of an edition in Spanish of La bonne chanson

Roland says goodbye to Charlemagne. Scene from
" Roland says goodbye to Charlemagne. Scene from " The Song of Roland" (" La Chanson de Roland" ), in " Grandes Chroniques de France" (14h century). North school

Narcisse Blanpain / Gill
Narcisse Blanpain (1839 -?) Typographer, chansonnier and Parisian pamphleteer

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