"explained, but no explanation soothed my worry'; yet when letters came, operational contingencies might mean the need to 'Fold the letter carefully away...Fold that whole world away, and passion and love, so that they couldn't be hurt; yet of course they were there...when I saw a man, any man, reading a letter'. In the second half of the century, with the coming of the permissive society - 'imprisoning in physical bonding' - and the instantaneity of the Information Age, the more distanced and nuanced art of the love letter might be said to have fallen somewhat into disrepute: 'what could"
"in various scenes and etchings representing ""the signs of the zodiac"". The lovers were depicted in stamps in 1985 in France, Cancellation at the post of Valentine's Day in the Indre every February 14 and in postcards. The French stamp of 1985, ""The Valentine's Day of Peynet"", is pastel colors. The rural scene depicts a couple of lovers near a heart-shaped mailbox in which two angels post envelopes. In 2000, La Poste Francais took over these two characters for a tribute stamp to the deceased illustrator, this time representing the two characters near a music kiosk. In 2002, a bottle"
"Salut d'amor A salut d'amor (, ; ""love letter"", lit. ""greeting"") or ""(e)pistola"" (epistle) was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love. Some songs preserved in the Italian ""quattrocento"" and ""cinquecento"" chansonniers are labelled in the rubrics as ""saluts"" (or some equivalent), but the ""salut"" is not treated as a genre by medieval Occitan grammarians. The trouvères copied the Occitan song style into Old French as the ""salut d'amour"". There are a total of nineteen surviving Occitan ""saluts"" and twelve French ones, with a Catalan"
"the world and adorn many objects. Raymond Peynet worked on that momentum for many newspapers. After becoming famous, Peynet returned to Valence in April 1966, to baptise the kiosk which now bears his name. The lovers of Peynet inspired the song of Georges Brassens. They were broken down into stamps in 1985 in France, cancelled by the post office of Saint-Valentin in Indre, each on 14 February, in postcards, dolls, in books, on medals, in statues (such as the one in Hiroshima in Japan). Subject of relentless pursuit for thousands of collectors, the little couple is famous to the four"
"throat. The very noun for ""lollypop"" in French, ""sucette"", is the substantivised verb ""sucer"", sucking – so that the title and the refrain (Annie aime les sucettes) are far more evocative in French than in the English translation. The song also features a direct double entendre, stating that Annie has lollipops ""pour quelques pennies"" (for a few pennies), which can also be heard as ""pour quelques pénis"" (for a few penises). A film clip for the song was directed by Jean-Christophe Averty for the TV show ""Au risque de vous plaire"". It featured props playing on the sexual references, with"
"of their affection loving them or not. The player typically is motivated by attraction to the person they are speaking of while reciting the phrases. They may seek to reaffirm a pre-existing belief, or act out of whimsy. In the original French version of the game, the petals do not simply indicate whether the object of the player's affection loves them, but to what extent: ""un peu"" or ""a little"", ""beaucoup"" or ""a lot"", ""passionnément"" or ""passionately"", ""à la folie"" or ""to madness"", or ""pas du tout"" or ""not at all."" A humorous twist on the game is ""She loves"
"layers of meaning include a pun on ""crotchets,"" which can mean both ""quarter notes"" (in music) and whimsical notions. The following are puns on notes as messages: (2.1.174–176), in which Benedick plays on the word ""post"" as a pole and as mail delivery in a joke reminiscent of Shakespeare's earlier advice ""Don't shoot the messenger""; and (2.3.138–142) in which Leonato makes a sexual innuendo concerning ""sheet"" as a sheet of paper (on which Beatrice's love note to Benedick is to have been written) and a bedsheet. The play was very popular in its early decades, as it would be later:"
"been attributed to the old French ""conter fleurette"", which means ""to (try to) seduce"" by the dropping of flower petals, that is, ""to speak sweet nothings"". While old-fashioned, this expression is still used in French, often mockingly, but the English gallicism ""to flirt"" has made its way and has now become an anglicism. The word ""fleurette"" was used in the 16th century in some sonnets, and some other texts. The French word ""fleurette"" (small flower), and the language of old south France word ""flouretas"" (from the Latin ""flora""(for flower)), are related to some little says where flowers are both at"
"(as ""Gino""), Dutch (""Twee kleine Italianen"") and Italian (""Un bacio all'italiana""). Of these, only the Dutch version relates to the same topic. The English version is a love song to a man named Gino, while the Italian version describes her preference for lovers from that country. The song was also widely covered throughout Europe and the rest of the world in a number of other languages; in Spanish as ""Los dos italianitos"", in the francophone countries as ""Cheveux fous et lèvres roses"", in Scandinavia in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish under the title ""Tina & Marina"" (in Sweden with lyrics by"
"Posie ring Posie rings (sometimes spelled posy, posey or poesy rings) are gold finger rings with a short inscription on their surface. They were popular during the 15th through the 17th centuries in both England and France as lovers' gifts. The language used in many early posy rings was Norman French, with French, Latin and English used in later times. The quotations were often from contemporary courtship stories or chapbooks and usually inscribed on the inner surface of the ring. The rings were also given to show regard or as a gift. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, has an"
"He loves me... he loves me not He loves me, he loves me not or She loves me, she loves me not (originally effeuiller la marguerite in French) is a game of French origin, in which one person seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection. A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases ""He (or she) loves me,"" and ""He loves me not,"" while picking one petal off a flower (usually an oxeye daisy) for each phrase. The phrase they speak on picking off the last petal supposedly represents the truth between the object"
"Ten list for 2009, and was a Genie Award nominee for the Best Animated Short at the 30th Genie Awards. Vive la rose Vive la rose is an 18th-century French folk song about unrequited love. ""Mon ami me délaisse"" is roughly translated as ""My boyfriend dumped me"". The song goes on to explain that he has found a new girlfriend. Another verse says that rumor has it that she is sick. The narrator says that if she dies, he will probably want to come back to her, but she will not have him. The chorus ""Vive la rose et le"
"an emblem of the postman delivering the card. Sending Valentine's Day cards became hugely popular in Britain in the late 18th century, a practice which has since spread to other nations. The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In Chaucer's ""Parlement of Foules"" (1382) he wrote; ""For this was on seynt Volantynys day. When euery bryd comets there to chese his make"". The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the 1784 English nursery rhyme ""Roses Are Red""; ""The rose"
"the first week of February 1851. Further changes were required by the censor. An exchange of a political document for sexual favors between Pythéas and Glycère caused a change in the line ""prenez-moi pour amant"" (""take me as a lover"") to ""traitez-moi tendrement"" (""treat me tenderly""). Pythéas's verses ""Oui, je comprends mignonne / Ton désir / Le mystère assaisonne / Le plaisir "" (""Yes, I understand my sweet / Your desire / The spicy secret / The pleasure"") became ""Oui, j'aime ton caprice / De candeur / Le mystère est complice / Du bonheur"" (""Yes, I like your whim /"
"and pastry cream is used as filling. Puits d'amour The Puits d'amour () is a French pastry with a hollow center. The center is usually stuffed with redcurrant jelly or raspberry jam; a later variation replaced the jam with vanilla pastry cream. The surface of the cake is sprinkled with confectioners' sugar or covered with caramel. ""Puits d'amour"" is a French expression carrying erotic connotations; it literally translates to 'well of love'. The first mention of the recipe appeared in Vincent De La Chapelles 1735 recipe book ""Le cuisinier moderne"" (the modern cook). La Chapelle presented two recipes for a"
"is used for romantic love. This word would be appropriate to describe the friendship of two men. The corresponding noun ""diligentia"", however, has the meaning of ""diligence"" or ""carefulness,"" and has little semantic overlap with the verb. ""Observare"" is a synonym for ""diligere""; despite the cognate with English, this verb and its corresponding noun, ""observantia"", often denote ""esteem"" or ""affection."" ""Caritas"" is used in Latin translations of the Christian Bible to mean ""charitable love""; this meaning, however, is not found in Classical pagan Roman literature. As it arises from a conflation with a Greek word, there is no corresponding verb."
"various works of a lyrical character written in two languages, Latin and French, or English and French, or even in three languages, Latin, English and French. In ""Early English Lyrics"" (Oxford, 1907) we have a poem in which a lover sends to his mistress a love-greeting composed in three languages, and his learned friend replies in the same style (""De amico ad amicam, Responcio"", viii and ix). The popularity enjoyed by the ""Roman de Renart"" and the Anglo-Norman version of the ""Riote du Monde"" (""Z. f. rom. Phil."" viii. 275-289) in England is proof enough that the French spirit of"
"the French Lolita and, wanting to exploit her innocence, composed for her the double entendre song ""Les sucettes"" (""Lollipops""): ""Annie loves lollipops, aniseed lollipops, when the sweet liquid runs down Annie's throat, she is in paradise."" The lyrics of the song are blatantly phallic, and the music video essentially features a group of dancing penises. Among the yé-yé girls, Sylvie Vartan played the glamorous one. She married the rock star Johnny Hallyday in 1965 and toured in America and Asia. But she remained a yé-yé at heart, and as late as in 1968 she recorded the song ""Jolie poupée"" (Pretty"
"lover both made and declares that """"I never ceased loving you"""", as well as singing that she is now """"homeless"""" following the breakup. Baïleche, herself of Italian descent, also recorded an Italian language version of the song, entitled ""Per parlare di noi"", as well as an English version, ""The Moon and the Stars"". It was succeeded as French representative at the 2004 Contest by Jonatan Cerrada with ""À chaque pas"". Monts et merveilles ""Monts et merveilles"" (English translation: ""Mountains and Wonders"", idiomatically ""The Moon and the Stars"") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed in French"
"romantic love dates to the 1250s. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital 'S' in a manuscript of the French ""Roman de la poire"" (National Library FR MS. 2086, plate 12). In the miniature a kneeling lover (or more precisely, an allegory of the lover's ""sweet gaze"" or ""douz regart"") offers his heart to a damsel. The heart here resembles a pine cone (held ""upside down"", the point facing upward), in accord with medieval anatomical descriptions. However, in this miniature what suggests a heart shape is only the result of a lover's finger superimposed on an object; the full"
"rhyme...[with] still current forms such as lovey-dovey, which appeared in 1819, and honey bunny', or of other duplications. Some such combinations seem nonsensical, odd, or too long, however, such as ""baby pie"" or ""love dear"", and are seldom used. Terms of endearment can lose their original meaning over the course of time: thus for example 'in the early twentieth century the word ""crumpet"" was used as a term of endearment by both sexes', before diminishing later into a 'term of objectification' for women. Terms of endearment are also used as a sort of ""significant other identity"". 'French has all kinds"
"the score was not placed upon a scoreboard, and there is scant evidence that the French ever used ""l'oeuf"" as the name for a zero score in the first place, that name being as anecdotal as the hypothesis that ""love"" is then derived from it. (Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his ""Letter to a Friend"", used ""à but"" to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is ""love-all"".) Some alternative hypotheses have similar problems. For example: The assertion that ""love"" comes from the Scots word ""luff"", meaning ""nothing"", falls at the first hurdle, because there is"
"language versions is that they retain their ambiguity due to the possibility that the feminine pronoun may refer to a woman or a girl, or any inanimate object or word that has the feminine gender. The love of a woman thus becomes a true metaphor for Bocelli's love of music. In France, the song went straight to number 9 on 6 December 1997, and reached number one four weeks later, thus becoming the sixth bilingual number-one singles in France. It topped the chart for five consecutive weeks, then dropped slowly, remaining for 22 weeks in the top ten, 33 weeks"
"kind of gift is welcome, whether it be given, stolen or returned, and warns that the good times are too short, implying that the listener should savor them for all they are worth. Hermès also recorded the song in English and German, as ""Words of Love"" and ""Liebe gibt und nimmt"" (""Love Gives and Takes"") respectively. The song was performed 20th (last) on the night, following Belgium's Pas de Deux with ""Rendez-vous"". At the close of voting, it had received 142 points, placing 1st in a field of 20. The win brought Luxembourg equal with France on five Contest wins"
"similarly to that of an engagement ring, is displayed publicly and proudly. In French it is sometimes called a souvenir, but this is a false friend, being the infinitive for the verb ""to remember"". ""Bijouterie"", the art of making or wearing bijoux, has thus developed its own private language or rebus known only to the initiated. Symbols may be religious or allegorical (two hands interwtwined, for example, indicate the love of two fools, like Romeo and Juliet); Pansies (, literally ""Flowers of thought"") indicate ""I am thinking of you"". Sometimes the bijou will have, hidden under a clasp, a photograph"
"but did not enjoy immediate success. The phrase became celebrated as an expression of ever-growing love when, in 1907 (17 years after its publication), a Lyons jeweler, Alphonse Augis, had the idea of making a medallion with the core portion of the verse engraved on it. The medallions became quite popular, and led to the production of other, similarly-decorated jewelry items, such as earrings and matchboxes; many older examples include Augis' name. A very common variation on the design presents the line with the words ""plus"" and ""moins"" replaced by the mathematical + and − signs, respectively. The mathematical signs"
"word (from ""நரந்தம் narandam"" which refers to Bitter orange in Tamil). The Sanskrit word reached European languages through Persian نارنگ (""nārang"") and its Arabic derivative نارنج (""nāranj""). The word entered Late Middle English in the fourteenth century via Old French ""orenge"" (in the phrase ""pomme d'orenge""). The French word, in turn, comes from Old Provençal ""auranja"", based on Arabic ""nāranj"". In several languages, the initial ""n"" present in earlier forms of the word dropped off because it may have been mistaken as part of an indefinite article ending in an ""n"" sound—in French, for example, ""une norenge"" may have been"
"the god of love on gaining his lady's favor, her love being symbolized by a rose. "" absent, communably, forwelk, fresh, fur, galantine, guerdon, habit, householding, jacounce, jagounce, jargon, jocund, lambskin, lightsome, lozenge, mansuete, masonry, mavis, medlar, mendicity, mendience, miscoveting, misway, mourning black, muid, nock, non-certain, obscure, overgilt, outwine, outstretch, outsling, palasin, papelardy, par coeur, parochial, patter, praise, prill, prime temps, Proteus, quail-pipe, racine, ravisable, recreandise, refraining, reft, resemblable, return, reverie, ribanding, rideled, riverside, roin, roinous, rose-leaf, sailour, Sarsenish, satin, savorous, scutcheon, seemlihead, shutting, slitter, smallish, snort, squirrel, suckeny, tassel, terin, thick-set, thread, timbester, tissue, tress, tretis, villainsly, volage, waterside,"
"me, she loves me lots."" This fortune-telling is shown as a pantomime in the 1st act of Giselle, ballet by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (Paris, 1841). He loves me... he loves me not He loves me, he loves me not or She loves me, she loves me not (originally effeuiller la marguerite in French) is a game of French origin, in which one person seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection. A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases ""He (or she) loves me,"" and ""He loves me not,"" while picking one petal"
"good enough"", is used as a refrain. It means ""darling, I love you very much."" When the song was written, ""je vous aime"" (using the respectful second person plural) was the normal way of saying ""I love you"" in French - until a threshold of intimacy had been reached, or in public. It has come to sound quaint, as now one would normally say ""je t'aime"" (using the familiar second person singular), regardless of the level of intimacy or location, ""Je ne sais pas"" in the song means ""I don't know."" ""Compris"" (or ""compree"" as it is sometimes phonetically spelled"
"No"" message has an unclear layout, appearing to read ""Justsay No"". Wayne and Coleen Rooney had personalised sweets made for their wedding in the summer of 2008 which read ""Wayne and Coleen"". The first special edition had been issued in 1981 to celebrate Princess Diana's wedding. A competition was held by Swizzels Matlow Ltd for 10 new messages to be put on Love Hearts; the winning entries (announced on 22 July 2008) were ""Think Pink"", ""Joyful Jo"", ""Granny P"", ""Me Julie Best Mum"", ""Juicy Jessie"", ""I Luv Alan"", ""Happy Harry"", ""Heart Baby"", ""Kin of U Home"" and ""Mermaid Eloise"". These"
"in printed lyrics) means ""understood."" ""Toujours"" means ""always."" ""Chérie"" means ""dear."" ""Très très fort"" means ""very very strong"" or ""very much"". Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup ""Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup"" is a popular song with words and music by Anna Sosenko in 1935. Sosenko was the manager of the singer Hildegarde who adopted the song as her theme. It was introduced in the film ""Love and Hisses"" by Hildegarde and charted by Hildegarde at # 21 in 1943. The stranger on the balcony in Bob Dylan's and Jacques Levy's song ""Black Diamond Bay"" from the 1976 album ""Desire"" says"
"his hopeless and unrequited love for her. Hesse took the names of the characters from Wolfram von Eschenbach's ""Parzival"". At the start of Robert Anderson's play ""Tea and Sympathy"", the main character, Tom Lee, is singing this ""plaintive"" song referred to as ""The Joys of Love"". Plaisir d'amour """" (literally ""The pleasure of love"") is a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel ""Célestine"". The song was greatly successful in Martini's version. For example, a young woman, Madame"