Word: rois
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...Overture, "Le Roi d'Ys," Lalo...
...Overture, "Si j'etais Roi," Adam...
...Overture, "Le Roi d'Ys," Lalo...
...Overture, "Le Roi l'a dit," Delibes...
...XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world, his first efforts at Paris failed...