chanson

la chanson (FR N-F) song, denotes both poetic and musical compositions through every period of history, ranging from those folklike and popular in content to the art-songs (usually called mélodies) of the 19th and 20th centuries. In medieval French literature, the chansons were any poems designed to be sung, including epics like the Chanson de Roland (1080). Properly speaking, today chanson refers to the popular songs, usually with political content, from the time of the French Revolution (eg…