Chant royal chrétien

poem by Marot

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In chant royal
…of this form, and his Chant royal chrétien, with its refrain “Santé au corps et Paradis à l’âme” (“Health to the body and Paradise to the soul”), was famous. The 17th-century fabulist Jean de La Fontaine was the last exponent of the chant royal before its eclipse. Revived in the…
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