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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by mercia View Post


    given the direction of the A question, perhaps we should know what we're looking for now
    You mean Breton?
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      You mean Breton?
      or even Brittany [is that the same thing ? ]


      ............... a well-known moneylender in literature .... ?

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Moneylender = Le prêteur et sa femme =



        = Quentin Massys =



        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          Moneylender = Le prêteur et sa femme
          is that Shakespeare ?

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            is that Shakespeare ?
            No, just a bit of fun!

            Have to nip out now.
            Last edited by Flay; 19-01-13, 09:44.
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              Ropartz connection to Brittany ?

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                Ropartz connection to Brittany ?
                Wiki says:

                Ropartz was associated with the Breton cultural renaissance of the era, setting to music the words of Breton writers such as Anatole Le Braz and Charles Le Goffic. He also supported Breton regional autonomy, joining the Breton Regionalist Union in 1898.
                Now I really must get to Asda...
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  Ropartz connection to Brittany ?
                  Ropartz was born in Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22108

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    fraid that one's lost on me, Mr cluff

                    feel free to explain
                    Just a play on words - Borodin did write orchestral works.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26506

                      Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                      Qu Xiao-song
                      Thursday had to be a virtually AA-free day, and if Odders is looking in: re the above, I think I missed how the above related to your clue "Kipling is confounded by this one". Can you soothe my puzzled brain?

                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26506

                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        or even Brittany [is that the same thing ? ]

                        Breton is the adjective referring to things and people from Brittany... or have I misunderstood?

                        Coming new to this and not sure which are answers... Have we only got Ropartz so far?




                        Originally posted by mercia View Post
                        ............... a well-known moneylender in literature .... ?

                        is that Shakespeare ?
                        Shylock? Fauré wrote incidental music called that, and he began his career in Rennes, Brittany, after school in Paris and before returning to the Madeleine etc...

                        Any good?
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Any good?
                          very good, so Faure employed in Brittany, Ropartz born in Brittany


                          organistic "evangelical poems" .............. from Brittany ?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26506

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            very good, so Faure employed in Brittany, Ropartz born in Brittany


                            organistic "evangelical poems" .............. from Brittany ?
                            Ah! I'd forgotten Jean Langlais was from north-east of Rennes


                            I have a godson in Rennes, and he and his bro (and their dad) are singing in Fauré's Requiem in April in their school chapel, I can't wait
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              Ah! I'd forgotten Jean Langlais was from north-east of Rennes
                              jolly good

                              Guy Ropartz - Guingamp - Un soir sur les chaumes
                              Jean Langlais - La Fontenelle - Poemes evangeliques
                              Faure - employed Rennes - Shylock opus 57

                              I do hope C will be a French region

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26506

                                Nice to have a Breton question to start the weekend

                                I should be back in an hour or so with a C unless Flay has bought one in Asda for us?
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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