Pronunciations 

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• Alphonse: 

• Lapin: 

• Montmarte: 

• Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: 

1599–1660

Spanish painter whose works, including portraits, notably of Pope Innocent X (1650), historical scenes, such as The Surrender of Breda (1635), still lifes, and genre scenes, display his extraordinary technique and mastery of light.

• Chablis:   (female voice/French accent)    (male voice/American accent)

1. A very dry white Burgundy wine originally from east-central France. 2. A blended white table wine of California.

Notes:    If made in France, this is a very dry, delicately flavored white wine that's made with Chardonnay grapes.  It's great with seafood, especially oysters.  If made domestically, like a California Chablis, it's a sweet and cheap jug wine.    

• Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck: 

German physicist. He won a 1918 Nobel Prize for discoveries in connection with quantum theory.

• Titian: 

Italian painter who introduced vigorous colors and the compositional use of backgrounds to the Venetian school. His works include the altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin (1518).

• Pastorale: 

1. An instrumental or vocal composition with a tender melody in a moderately slow rhythm, suggestive of traditional shepherds' music and idyllic rural life.
2. A dramatic performance or opera, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, that was based on a rural theme or subject.

• Seine: 

A river of northern France flowing about 772 km (480 mi) generally northwest to the Bay of the Seine, an inlet of the English Channel, near Le Havre. It has been an important commercial waterway since Roman times and has figured significantly in the histories of Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre.

• raison d'être: 

Reason or justification for existing.

French : raison, reason + de, of, for + être, to be.

• Michelangelo Buonarroti: 

Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who created some of the greatest works of art of all time, including the marble sculpture David (1501), the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–1512), and the plans for Saint Peter's Church in Rome.

• Guillaume Apollinaire:  

Born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky.  French poet and leading figure in avant-garde literary and artistic circles

• Hiroshima: 

A city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea west of Osaka. Founded in the 16th century, it was destroyed in World War II by the first atomic bomb used in warfare (August 6, 1945). The rebuilt city is an important commercial and industrial center. Population: 1,102,047

• Irrevocable: 

Impossible to retract or revoke

Resources 

• French Audio Lab - Pronunciation and Listening Skills

• Strat's Place - The Audio Wine Dictionary - live wine pronunciation and definitions

• French Audio Dictionary - Introduction and Key to Abbreviations

• French Language at About - Learn French - Teach French - Speak French

• Bonjour.com - Free French online lessons

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