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Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames, The d'Antin Manuscript

by · 1968

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A wonderful collection of antiquated French poems, with detailed notes and references in English... or so it would seem. Reading the poems aloud reveals them to be of a very different nature, which anyone who had an English childhood will revel in, as the poems are actually homophonic renderings of forty well-known nursery rhymes. For best effect, find an actual French person to read them to you!

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 48 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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