Paris Vu du Ciel, Paris from the sky

Paris Vu du Ciel

Paris from the sky

Paris vista desde el Cielo

Soeur Sourire - Dominique (1963)

Sœur Sourire

(1963)

The Singing Nun

Dominique, inique, inique
s'en allait tout simplement
Routier pauvre et chantant
En tous chemins, en tous lieux
Il ne parle que du bon Dieu
Il ne parle que du bon Dieu

A l'époque où Jean-sans-Terre
D'Angleterre était le Roi
Dominique, notre Père
Combattit les Albigeois

Refrain
Certain jour un hérétique
Par des ronces le conduit
Mais notre père Dominique
Par sa joie le convertit

Refrain
Ni chameau, ni diligence
Il parcourt l'Europe à pied
Scandinavie ou Provence
Dans la sainte pauvreté

Refrain
Enflamma de toute école
Filles et garçons pleins d'ardeur
Et pour semer la Parole
Inventa les Frères-Prêcheurs

Refrain
Chez Dominique et ses frères
Le pain s'en vint à manquer
Et deux anges se présentèrent
Portant de grands pains dorés

Refrain
Dominique vit en rêve
Les prêcheurs du monde entier
Sous le manteau de la Vierge
En grand nombre rassemblés

Refrain
Dominique, mon bon Père
Garde-nous simples et gais
Pour annoncer а nos frères
La vie et la véritéRefrain

Jeanne Deckers (17 October 1933 – 29 March 1985), aka Jeannine Deckers, better known as Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile", often credited as The Singing Nun in English-speaking countries), was a Belgian singer-songwriter and initially a member of the Dominican Order in Belgium as Sister Luc-Gabrielle.

She acquired world fame in 1963 with the release of the French-language song "Dominique", which topped the U.S. Billboard and other charts.

Early years
She was born Jeanne Paule Deckers in Laeken in 1933, the daughter of a pâtisserie shop owner, and was educated in a Catholic school in Brussels. She was a keen Girl Guide who bought her first guitar to play at Guide evening events. Though she was thinking about becoming a nun even as a young woman, she trained and then worked as a teacher.
 

In September 1959 she entered the Missionary Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Fichermont, headquartered in the city of Waterloo, where she took the name Sister Luc-Gabrielle.

Music career
While in the convent, Deckers wrote, sang and performed her own songs, which were so well received by her fellow nuns and visitors that her religious superiors encouraged her to record an album, which visitors and retreatants at the convent would be able to purchase.

In 1961, the album was recorded in Brussels at Philips; the single "Dominique" became an international hit, and in 1962 her album sold nearly two million copies. The Dominican Sister became an international celebrity, with the stage name of Sœur Sourire ("Sister Smile"). She gave concerts and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on 5 January 1964. "Dominique" was the first, and remains the only, Belgian song to be a number one hit single in the United States.

Deckers found it difficult having to live up to her publicity as "a true girl scout", always happy and in a good mood. "I was never allowed to be depressed", Deckers remembered in 1979. "The mother superior used to censor my songs and take out any verses I wrote when I was feeling sad."

In 1963 she was sent by her order to take theology courses at the University of Louvain. She liked the student life, if not her courses. She reconnected with a friend from her youth, Annie Pécher, with whom she slowly developed a very close relationship.

Films

The Singing Nun is a 1966 American semi-biographical film about the life of Deckers. It stars Debbie Reynolds in the title role. The film also stars Ricardo Montalbán, Katharine Ross, Chad Everett, and Ed Sullivan as himself.

In 2009, Sœur Sourire, a Franco-Belgian biopic, starring Cécile de France as Deckers, was released.

The song "Dominique" is topically heard early in episode 10 of season 3 of Mad Men, set in 1963.

 
 

Sœur Sourire - Tous les Chemins

Sœur Sourire

Tous les Chemins

Soeur Sourire - Tous les Chemins 
Lyrics - Musique en Parole

Soeur Sourire - Fleur de cactus

Soeur Sourire
'Fleur de Cactus'

Lyrics

Soeur Sourire - Dominique (Lyrics French)

Soeur Sourire
Dominique 

Sœur Sourire - Sœur Adèle

Sœur Sourire

Sœur Adèle

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Singing Nun

Sœur Sourire - Sœur Adèle

C'était une guitare espagnole
Née d'un bouleau ou d'un sapin
Dans une boutique de Barcelone
Un beau matin du mois de juin
Au fond du cœur une étiquette
Indique son identité
Et sa parole chaude et discrète
é.tait bien douce à écouter

Dans une vitrine du vieux Bruxelles
On la suspendit par le cou
Puis certain jour une demoiselle
S'en vint l'acheter pour quelques sous
Adieu flamencos chauds d'Espagne
Andalousie et corridas
Jolie guitare ma compagne
Adèle tu t'appeleras

Pour répondre à la voix divine
Qui l'invitait à sa moisson
La péronnelle "C'est moi" quitta la ville
Pour un couvent des environs
Adèle partit dans les bagages
Et commença son noviciat
Joyeuse et pleine de courage
Et chanta Dieu à pleine voix

Sur tous les tons de toute son âme
Adèle s'est vouée au Seigneur
Et ses chansons partout proclament
Que servir Dieu c'est son bonheur
Derrière les harpes et les cithares
Qui forment l'orchestre des cieux
On entendra humble guitare
Un jour Adèle chez le bon Dieu

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Sœur Sourire - Alléluia

Sœur Sourire - Alléluia

Singing Nun

 
J'allais sur toutes les routes vagabondant
Au gré du temps au gré du vent
Traînant partout ma lassitude
Au gré du temps au gré du vent
Pour l'amour où Dieu m'habite
Pour la vie qu'il partage avec moi
Pour le bonheur que je lui dois
Alléluia!

Chansons Célestes

Inoubliables

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Sœur Sourire - J'ai Trouvé Le Seigneur

Sœur Sourire

J'ai Trouvé Le Seigneur

Sœur Sourire - Plume de Radis

Sœur Sourire

Plume de Radis

 

 

Soeur Sourire✬Entre les Étoiles

Sœur Sourire

Entre les Étoiles

Entre les étoiles	Among the stars
Le Seigneur a écrit ton nom	The Lord has written your name
Entre les étoiles	Among the stars
Tout là-haut dans sa maison	In His house way up high
Entre les étoiles	Among the stars
Le Seigneur a posé ta vie	The Lord loves your life
Entre les étoiles	Among the stars
Près de lui en Paradis	Close to Him in paradise
La nuit où le Seigneur	The night when the Lord
t'a désiré la nuit	wished for you
La nuit où de deux chairs	The night, the night when two lovers
il a crée ta vie	gave you life
La nuit où son amour le	The night when out of love God
premier t'a souri	Oh bless the night !
Bénis la nuit
Refrrain	Chorus
Le jour où le Seigneur t'a racheté	The day when the Lord redeemed you
le jour	The day
Le jour où il t'a fait son enfant	The day when He made you
pour toujours	His child always
Le jour où de ton cur il a fait	The day when your heart
son séjour	Stayed with the Lord
Bénis le jour	Bless the day !
Refrrain	Chorus
Le soir où le Seigneur t'appelera	The evening when the Lord called your name
le soir	The evening
Le soir où tes vieux jours hâteront	The evening when you've grown old
le Départ	and you depart this world
Le soir du rendez-vous transfiguré	The evening when you return
I'espoir	Your spirit transformed
Bénis le soir	Bless the evening !
Refrrain	Chorus

Classical Music Mashup

Classical Music
Mashup

 

Classical Music Mashup II

Featuring 52 pieces by 31 composers. 
How many of these timeless tunes can you name?
 

Music and video by Grant Woolard

New York Might Look Like This as Sea Levels Rise

New York Might Look Like This

As Sea Levels Rise

Published on Sep 23, 2016

When will New York City sink?

Things aren't looking great.

How Did Latin Become A Dead Language?

How Did Latin Become

A Dead Language?

While Latin's influence is apparent in many modern languages, it is no longer commonly spoken. 

So exactly why did the language die out?

When the Catholic Church gained influence in ancient Rome, Latin became the official language of the sprawling Roman Empire. Latin was king of the world -- the language of international communication, scholarship, and science. 

So what happened? Jules Suzdaltsev investigates in today's Seeker Daily report.

Latin is now considered a dead language, meaning it's still used in specific contexts, but does not have any native speakers. (Sanskrit is another dead language.) 

In historical terms, Latin didn't die so much as it changed -- into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. 

These are known as the Romance languages -- "Rome" is the root term -- and while other tongues developed from Latin, these are the most common.

All five of these languages incorporate grammar, tenses and specific intricacies from Latin. Not coincidentally, each language developed in former territories of the Western Roman Empire. When that empire failed, Latin died, and the new languages were born.

Part of the reason that Latin passed out of common usage is because, as a language, it's incredibly complex. Classical Latin is highly inflected, meaning that nearly every word is potentially modified based on tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and mood. With no central power promoting and standardizing usage of Classical Latin, it gradually passed away from everyday usage.

Vulgar Latin, essentially a simplified version of the mother tongue, survived for a while but diverged more and more as it folded in various local languages. By the end of the sixth century, people from different sections of the former empire could no longer understand each other. 

Latin had died as a living language.

Still, due to the overwhelming prevalence of Latin in early Western literature, medicine and science, Latin as a language of antiquity never quite went extinct -- a term which has its own particular meaning in linguistics. 

Today, Latin is still used in many technical fields, medical terminology and taxonomy, the scientific classification of species.

 http://www.seeker.com/how-did-latin-become-a-dead-language-2008876974.html

Romance Languages Map

Popular Latin*

• Old French*
• French
• Occitan (Provençal)
• Spanish
• Asturian
• Galician
• Catalan
• Portuguese 
• Italian
• Corsican
• Rhaetoromance

Indo-European Linguistic Studies Links
 http://tied.verbix.com/links1.html#ita

The Amazing Diversity of Languages

Around the World

in one Map

 

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/2/5862696/where-people-speak-what-languages

Change Your Posture, Change your Life!

These 2 Minutes can Change Your Life

Change Your Posture, Change your Life!

Wake up to the realities of what our modern life is doing to your body. You can improve your life RIGHT NOW with one simple change. Change your posture, change your life!

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North by Northwest (1959)

One of Eva Marie Saint’s lines in the dining car seduction scene was redubbed.

She originally said “I never make love on an empty stomach,“ but it was changed in post-production to "I never discuss love on an empty stomach.” The censors felt the original version was too risqué.

One of my

ALL TIME FAVORITES !!!

North by Northwest is a 1959 American action thriller film, made in VistaVision, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures".

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm that contains government secrets.

This is one of several Hitchcock films that features a music score by Bernard Herrmann and a memorable opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass. This film is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.

North by Northwest is now regarded among the essential Hitchcock pictures and is often listed as one of the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest