Tuesday, August 21, 2012

RAVEL WAS HERE

It was while living in this villa in Lyons-la-Forêt, a picturesque and peaceful village surrounded by an undoubtedly inspiring beech-tree forest in the Vexin Normand, that Maurice Ravel composed Le Tombeau de Couperin. For twenty-five minutes of trembling-leaf-listening pleasure, click here.
Vocabulary
un hêtre:  a beech
une hêtraie:  a beech grove

Pronunciation tip:  the "s" of Lyons is pronounced.

©2012 P.B. Lecron

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