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La chasse (E. Verhaeren)

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male), “Sociétaire de la Comédie-Française”, interprets this poem, accompanied by the sounds of a hunting horn and a church bell.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is an Odéon disc, No. 171 047. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Monteaux, M[onsieur] Roger

François Villon: Ballade des pendus

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French
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Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Professional actor recites the classic poem.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of a Florilège disc, No. HP 1206. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection). Unreviewed). WAVE File is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Dullin, Charles

Je plains le temps de ma jeunesse..., Ballade des dames du temps jadis (and) Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame

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France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Deiber recites “Je plains le temps de ma jeunesse...”, and Conte recites “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” and;“Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Pléiade disc, No. P11. There is a dittoed sheet of the recording script inserted in the record sleeve. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Deiber, Paul-Emile; and Louise Conte

Voltaire and Rousseau: Exchange of letters

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Locations: 
France
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Native speakers (a man and a woman from the French Department of the University of London) read "Lettre de Voltaire à J.-J. Rousseau: Défense des arts et des lettres" [and] "Réponse de J.-J. Rousseau à Voltaire". (The recording is apparently an exercise in the Sperlings Phonothek language-instruction series.)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Sperlings Phonothek disc, cat. no. 7606. The text of the recordings is on file. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE File is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Coustenoble, [Mlle.] H.; and M[onsieur] E. Stéphan

Poetry of Miguel Zamacoïs (from: Anthologie des poètes français contemporains dits par eux-mêmes)

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French
Locations: 
France
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Zamacoïs reads excerpts from three works: “La légende de la brise” (from Les bouffons), “Le faune silencieux” (from Feux follets et fantômes) and “Le serin” (from L'Arche de Noé).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Pathé disc, No. X.9071–one of the set of 11 found in the original Anthologie... album. [Disc No. 12 is missing.] (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Zamacoïs, Miguel

Le manuel du chauffeur: monologue comique

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Comic with orchestra in French”
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Victor disc, No. 63141B. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Zip

Collection of private recordings

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Mme Brochéry” apparently cut this series of recordings with titles such as “Le but du monde”, “La démocratie”, “La grenouille” and “Vision antique”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Contributor: 
Brochéry, [?]

Discs français

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
A collection of (12) “SoundScriber” discs with unknown contents
Collection Technical Notes: 
These are practice discs of a class in French, recorded circa 1959.
Contributor: 
[unnamed]

L'épopée du Mandingue

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France
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Accompanied by traditional instruments, Kandia chants “Douga”, “Kedo”, “Dyandjon” and “Massané Cissé”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a dub of the 33⅓ rpm, monaural disc, Editions Syliphone Conakry SLP 36, lent to the LLA by Ralph Austen; JJT, rec. eng., 7/11/74.
Contributor: 
Kandia, Kouyate Sory; and his trio: Kouyate Dyeli Sory, Diabate Sidikiba and one unnamed

Poetry of François Villon

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Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Members of the Comédie Française recite: 1) “Je plaings le temps de ma jeunesse...”, 2) “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” and 3) “Ballade pour prier Nostre Dame”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Clarence E. Parmenter Collection
Contributor: 
Deiber, Paul-Emile; and Louise Conte